Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vodka Glass. How could so skilled a chemist have allowed sweat to contaminate his equipment? The explanation is simple, says Purdue University Chemist Robert Davis, who collaborated with Rousseau and confirmed his conclusions with other analytic techniques. Every person is surrounded by an invisible cloud of organic salts that have evaporated from the skin and been expelled from the lungs; these tiny pollutants may well be absorbed by the porous glass of laboratory beakers and flasks. Thus polywater-which is made by letting steam condense inside hair-thin glass tubes-could pick up impurities even in the hands...
...been dead approximately 12 hours, police said. Bottles of tequila, vodka and wine were found in the apartment, but no drugs...
...precaution against pilfering, gas is sold only in 21 gallon lots for prepur-chased coupons. Drivers frequently carry an empty vodka bottle, in the event the auto's tank is filled before one of the 21 gallon units is completely pumped in. Since the housing shortage places a higher priority on new apartments, virtually no garages have been built. Cars must be kept outside or put on blocks from November to March...
...reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka, which formed the first course of a feast that lasted well into the night, as Anson set about regaining some of those lost pounds. He reports on his experience in this week's World section...
Reporters hop into chauffeur-driven, air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz limousines and rush out onto the highways. Three, four, five hours later they begin trickling back-the lucky ones-to a lawn-edged pool at the stately, decaying Royal Hotel. Sipping lemonade or good Russian vodka, they trade experiences. Nothing to the north for 20 klicks (kilometers). All quiet at Kompong Speu, but the city is deserted and still smoldering from a Communist mortar attack that morning. "You should have seen this one old lady," says a reporter. "She had a line of bullets up her leg. The goddam wounds were...