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...bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks before the questionnaires were sent, 74% entertained guests in their home; 81% serve liquor, with Scotch, gin, bourbon and vodka the preferred drinks...
Increasingly, the booze is vodka, which for the past six years has shown the fastest-growing sales for liquor in the U.S. Businessmen like it in lunchtime martinis, in Bull Shots or Bloody Marys, because it leaves no after-breath. Purists are learning to drink it the way the Poles and Russians have for cen turies: straight and cold. Among artists in the Long Island Hamptons, this summer's favorite was 100-proof Polish Bison Brand Vodka, which comes flavored with a thin piece of stiff grass (the herb Zubrowka) in every bottle...
...Fogs & Black Martinis. Because of its versatility, vodka has also replaced rum as the prime ingredient in the more outlandish mixed drinks. Fruggers at The Daisy in Beverly Hills between exhibitions fuel up with White Russians (vodka, Kahlua and cream) or with the vodka Orange Julius. Their counterparts in Miami and Palm Beach go for the Bog-Fog (vodka and cranberry juice-known to New Englanders as the Cape Codder) or the Palm Bay Intrigue (pineapple wine with vodka and a squeeze of lime...
...photographer who has the respect as well as friendship of almost the entire Saigon press corps. Many of them gathered last May to celebrate his 22nd birthday. He had just been wounded in Danang, but suddenly showed up in Saigon announcing: "All you can do up there is drink vodka Collins. Besides, they're perfect buggers, those Buddhist rebels. It's my birthday, mate; let's order some champagne. I never thought I'd live to see it." Hardly anyone else did, either. "Congratulations for having made it," toasted a veteran correspondent, "but haven...
...mobile toilet facilities and not go traipsing into people's houses. A single exception was the star, who one evening appeared in a terry-cloth robe at one back door and asked: "Are you the lady of the house? I'm Burt Lancaster. May I have a vodka martini...