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...Monkey-Wrench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 19, 1971 | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...nominate Daniel Ellsberg for Man of the Year for throwing the monkey wrench into that perpetual-motion machine, Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 19, 1971 | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...Veronis and Charney it was a wrench to leave CRM, which they started in 1967 and sold to Boise last year. But their separation may be only temporary. "It's only a matter of time," says a CRM executive, "before they'll be back making Boise an offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bargaining for a Baby | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

Last Saturday at the Adams Cup, Navy threw an unexpected monkey wrench into the gears of the usually domineering Penn and Harvard crews. So this week, in an effort to recapture the intercollegiate rowing crown, Ted Nash and Harry Parker have pulled all the stops in preparation for the showdown at Saturday's Eastern Sprints...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Heavies, Lights Try to Keep Sprint Titles | 5/7/1971 | See Source »

...urged to try their favorite mixed drinks under a heady assortment of new names. Thus, using a base of Frost 8/80, a Bloody Mary becomes a Diamond Lil; a Manhattan, a Great White Hope; a Daiquiri, an Igloo; a Martini, a Moby Dick; and a Screwdriver, a Monkey Wrench. The new whisky, it seems, is versatile enough to masquerade as gin, vodka or even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion-Dollar Gamble in Whisky | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

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