Word: customs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing preference for wine can be taken as further evidence of commonsensical drinking. Light wine with meals is a familiar European custom that is taking hold in the U.S. Since 1955, consumption of table wines has nearly doubled, to 78.6 million gallons a year. Five years ago, restaurant customers in Chicago seldom bought wine. Now it is common, and they are specifying color, brand, region, year-even ordering Grands Echezeaux and pronouncing it right...
...Prohibition Amendment of 1919, the U.S. developed a guilt complex about drink that it has not yet fully overcome. But there is increasing evidence of the second revolution in the public attitude toward alcohol: the country is learning to accept its drinking habit as a social custom that is as ineradicable as it is harmless when practiced in moderation. The alcoholic is a product of any drinking culture, but America is beginning to realize that he is a sick man rather than a sinner. Since 1956, the American Medical Association has recognized the alcoholic as a medical problem. The National...
...excellence of its food. Hong Kong is the shopper's paradise ("the world's biggest PX," as one R & R-er described it); it is thronged with purposeful G.I.s looking for camera and tape-recorder bargains offered by its freeport status, and perhaps an instant custom suit for $35 ordered and fitted within 48 hours. Hong Kong is also the most popular R & R center for the Seventh Fleet; the arrival and departure of U.S. ships coming off patrol duty off Viet Nam is recorded on an updated blackboard at many a bar-dancehall in its famed Wanchai...
...already has more electronic augmentation on hand than most disc jockeys, but he wants to expand his collection. He plans to install a voice organ, with which he could eliminate certain spectra of the sound as well as a variety of custom sound making devices. "Eventually," he says proudly, "I'll have as much control of the show as the engineer does...
Most of the savings came from substituting less expensive building materials and methods for those originally planned. Radiators, for instance, will have standard rather than custom-tailored enclosures; windows will swing in instead of out; floors, through most of the building, will be covered with vinyl asbestos tile instead of carpet...