Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...films of British ground-to-air guided missiles in action. Shot at the trial range at Aberporth, Wales, the films follow the launching and flight of the experimental missile, which reputedly can travel at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. The missiles are fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen and presumably controlled by electronic computers on the ground. The filmed sequence, shown last week on NBC, starts (bottom left) as the missile heads skyward, powered by wraparound booster rockets, which begin to fall off (upper left) as the missile reaches top speed. The missile then cuts...
Toward the end of his life (he died in 1945), Dreiser often seemed far gone in alcohol, and he spoke about Russia with an undergraduate's defensive truculence. "Oh, you can't beat that system . . . a whole country belonging to the people," he told an interviewer in 1941. Power and pity were his themes, and things called corporations-which in his view brutalized those who controlled them and crushed those who did not-were his enemies. All his life, says Novelist James Farrell in an introduction to these stories,* Dreiser was on a quest for "a theory...
...will return to my plantation, like Washington," he says. A Roman Catholic in a family whose other members still believe in black magic, he is a self-styled ascetic, gave up mangoes at the age of 13 because he liked them too much, has since given up tobacco, alcohol, sports, music, movies, even the coffee which he grows on his plantation. "Every year I force myself to give up something I like." This still leaves him a good deal. In Paris he wears expensive European suits, is driven around town in his black Cadillac by a white French chauffeur, lives...
...survey made by the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies showed that there are 2,000,000 alcoholics on the payrolls of business and industry at the present time, Donham said...
Participating in Tuesday night's panel discussion, which Professor Donham moderated, were Dr. Sobien D. Bacon, director of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies and Livingston Hall, vice-dean of the Law School...