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...beer that might have made Moscow famous is a light, frothy brew called Zhiguli, which has long been touted as the perfect accompaniment for rak, a Russian crawfish. But for some time, Muscovites -and beer drinkers all over the U.S.S.R. -have noticed that their Zhiguli had lost its zip. Last week they knew why. Up for trial and denounced for his "criminally careless attitude" was V. P. Lisakov, director of Moscow's biggest brewery. The dark charge against Lisakov, Senior Brewmaster P. D. Kirichek, and eight other brewery officials: watering the Zhiguli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: No Zip in the Zhiguli | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...Birdie. A rock-n-roll call of teen-agers surrounding an Elvis Presleyish crooner named Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier). As staged by Gower Champion, the fresh and sometimes frantic musical crashes through the evening with all the zip of a bowling ball on the loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...Birdie. A rock-'n'-roll call of teen-agers surrounding an Elvis Presleyish crooner named Conrad Birdie (Dick Gautier). As staged by Gower Champion, the fresh and sometimes frantic musical crashes through the evening with all the zip of a bowling ball on the loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...Stewart; music and lyrics by Charles Strouse & Lee Adams) is not particularly expert, but it doesn't have to be. There is something infectiously and rampageously lively about it. Staged with exuberance by Gower Champion, who is the real hero of the evening, Birdie has the special crazy zip of a bowling ball on the loose, of rifle shots not so much hitting the bull's-eye as overturning the target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Openings on Broadway | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Guests Woody Herman, Vaughn Monroe, Freddie Martin and Jo Stafford, Hubbell Robinson's tiring series tries to acquire some zip with The Swingin' Singin' Years. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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