Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON found itself somewhat involved this year in the usual collegiate argle-bargle: urging longer hours for female guests (in accord with the ideal of "gracious living"), advocating an additional mid-year vacation and drinking for 18-year olds, battling the Harvard Athletic Association for alcohol in the stands, tickets, and general principles. Yet in the midst of the frivolity the CRIME somehow found time for serious consideration of a few major issues...
...Salk's advice: give each member of the crew, and the baggage smashers in Baltimore and Washington, a double dose of gamma globulin and a dose of polio vaccine, and disinfect the plane. The passengers were allowed to take their luggage after it had been sluiced down with alcohol. The plane's interior got a dousing with hydrogen peroxide (the entire stock of three drugstores), Lysol and isopropyl alcohol. After consulting the Public Health Service, Capital ordered the same crew to fly the plane back to Washington, promptly pressed it into service again with another crew. It hopped...
...first time, alcohol last year killed more Frenchmen than tuberculosis: 17,400 deaths from alcoholism and cirrhosis of the liver, with the rate still going up; 13,300 from TB, with the rate still going down...
...glues and hardboards. From the bark come "cork" tile, insecticides and floor wax. Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel. Stumps and scraps, burned-over and diseased timber are transmuted into hardboard and rayon, edible sugars and drinkable alcohol. Even the waste chemicals that poison the air around paper mills from Maine to Minnesota are now being transformed into marketable products. On the horizon: hybrid trees that will reach marketable age faster-and yield much more lumber...
Down at Brown this year there will be no exam-time tippling. As a result of undergraduate "boisterousness" with the bottle during the Bruins' annual Spring Weekend, the Brown administration has shut off all alcohol taps for the rest of the academic year...