Word: wines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wine and candlelight supper in the dormitories will be followed by dancing at Agassiz. Real flowers and open fires will decorate the ballroom, and the surrounding gallery will be open to spectators...
...slickest set of the evening. It's easy to see why Sadao Watanbe, the quintet's altoist, wins all the jazz polls in Japan; few foreigners can handle an alto sax with as much feeling and expertise as he can. He has great emotional range. On Davs of Wine and Roses, his tone was liquid, and smooth as marble; on Miles Davis' So What, he spat and screamed in a breathtaking solo. Watanbe (who is really good enough to play with anyone) had excellent support: the melodic, unpretentious piano of Brian Cooke, Saltonstall's bass, and Billy Elgart's drums...
Nowhere in Central Europe's vodka belt is there a harder-drinking nation than Poland, where doctors estimate that 1,500,000 of the country's 31 million people drink too much. Last year Poles managed to down 118 million quarts of vodka, wine and beer, or almost four quarts for every man, woman and child, a statistic that shows up in widespread worker absenteeism and hooliganism. Fed up, Poland's Red rulers have begun to crack down hard on alcohol, revoking 82 liquor licenses in Warsaw alone, which on top of a recent ban on liquor...
...Stadium. If the latest crackdown follows form, it will not leave the slightest dent in alcoholism. An 18% price increase in vodka last November and the gradual introduction of wine and beer have had no effect on consumption of stronger stuff. Instead, said one journalist, beer is now "considered a supplement to the normal vodka ration." Other measures to cut down drinking have proved just as hopeless. One town used its "corkage" taxes from vodka sales to build a sports stadium, apparently thinking the lure of sports would take people's minds off liquor. The populace flocked eagerly...
...troubled young priest goes to Rome, where his aristocratic father and a cardinal friend are close advisers of the Pope. The cardinal (Fred Stewart) is a jovial, fleshy connoisseur of wine, rare flowers, and the chess game of international politics. "Trouble tempers dictators," he remarks after Hitler loses Stalingrad, and presses Father Riccardo to be a realist, since "the realist compromises." In his uncompromising way, the young priest finally sees Pius and begs him to damn Hitler openly. The Pope knows Hitler's wrongs, but he reminds Father Riccardo that "a diplomat must see with discretion...