Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Berlin, the restaurant of the Kempinski Hotel was serving a World Cup Cocktail-equal parts of curacao, vodka and orange juice-at 5½ Deutsche Mark a throw, or kick. On the Kudamm you could buy a record of the West German eleven trolling "Football is our life . . . King Football rules the world." Democratic Germany, as opposed to the German Democratic Republic, was taking the footballworld-mastership to her uncorseted and friendly bust. The spirit of internationalism was stretched so far that even selected chain gangs from the workers' paradise over the Wall were clanked into the corruptive...
TRADE. Soviet-American trade has jumped from $200 million in 1971 to $ 1.5 billion in 1973, with the dollar-ruble balance 7 to 1 in favor of the U.S., which buys Soviet vodka, platinum, diamonds and chrome ore and sells oil-and gas-drilling equipment, machinery and electronic gear, including computers. The Russians have been eager for loans and technological know-how, and so far they have got some of both. Only in May Nixon intervened with the Export-Import Bank to approve a $180 million loan for eight Soviet ammonia fertilizer plants and the attendant gear to move...
...instance, has the highest rate of alcoholism in the world (an estimated 10% to 12% of the population, including some children), and the Soviet Union may not be far behind. Soviet newspapers now blame 60% of their country's murders, holdups and burglaries on that old demon vodka. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev gave tacit recognition to the problem when U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited him recently. Discussing with Kissinger plans for a U.S.-built soft-drink factory in the Soviet Union, Brezhnev mused: "Maybe we can teach our people to drink less vodka and more Pepsi...
...space built. Five years ago, eager tipplers stood four deep at the bar in spots like Ramon's and The Surf during the Friday afternoon happy hours. The drink of the day was a vicious concoction called a "moonshot" (two-thirds 151-proof dark rum and one-third vodka mixed with cream). Now the drinking ranks are older and sparser, and it is difficult to find a bartender who remembers how to mix a moonshot...
...cigarette case with a time lock on it that he keeps hidden in his desk. Referring to the fact that Pepsi-Cola will soon be distributed in the Soviet Union-one of the accomplishments of détente-he said: "Maybe we can teach our people to drink less vodka and more Pepsi-Cola...