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...towns, over stick-straight highways and the winding side roads, fast automobiles and trucks sped on late-night runs from close-to-the-border cities in Missouri and Texas. Artfully dodging police prowl cars, they slipped into Tulsa and Oklahoma City bringing bootlegged Scotch at $7 a fifth, vodka at $5.50 and gin at $5. Admiring the tinsel, feeling the cold, buying the whisky (in gift decanters), Oklahomans knew that the Christmas season was in full swing...
...that mysterious elite which inhabits all Communist cities there is the Rarytas Restaurant with soft lights and music, where dinner with wine costs 400 zlotys ($100 at the present exchange rate, a week's wage for a better-paid Pole). At the Kaskada, a smoke-filled vodka joint, there is Dixieland music, and at 2 a.m. the proprietor, according to a Warsaw magazine, "discreetly removes the drunks and lays them out in neat rows on the sidewalk." Gasoline is rationed, taxis hard to find, and there is a coal shortage...
Bottle of Vodka...
...Cleary's favorite souvenirs of the 1956 games is a genuine Russian bottle of Vodka. It seemed that early in the competition, when the Russian team thought the Canadians would give them the most trouble, Cleary became friendly with an English-speaking Russian student who promised him a bottle of Vodka if the U.S. knocked off Canada in the second round...
...VODKA SALES are up 146% over last year, will near $250 million for 1956. Vodka now claims 6.6% of U.S. whisky and spirits market, more than double 1955 share, but still far behind...