Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Question of Cholesterol. The hottest of all arguments is over cholesterol. For the last decade or so, some researchers have been casting this fatty alcohol as the villain. It is the predominant substance found in the plaques and patches that form on the roughened inner wall (intima) of the artery, and the amount circulating in the blood is in some rough proportion to the fats in the diet. So it is temptingly simple to draw the conclusion that the dietary fat starts the trouble and the cholesterol finishes it when it has built up deposits-which may also become calcified...
...them (see box). "Perhaps the most dangerous thing we doctors can do in managing patients with heart or artery disease," says Page, "is to discourage them with too many don'ts. It is disturbing to me to read medical recipes for long life which first prohibit smoking, then alcohol, and tell you to cut out butter and other fats, and end by suggesting that some kinds of cancer can be avoided by total abstention from sexual intercourse. That is limiting life pretty sharply. We don't want to make invalids, but to help these people to live lives...
...Father of Physical Culture," onetime publishing tycoon who bossed an empire of 13 magazines and ten newspapers (True Story, True Detective, Liberty, etc.) with a total estimated monthly circulation of 16 million; of jaundice, aggravated by a three-day fast; in Jersey City. The frail son of an alcoholic father and a tuberculous mother, Macfadden was an orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden...
...Association began its scheme to overwhelm Harvard three years ago with its decision to replace the traditionally fragile wooden goalposts with ultramodern (and indestructible) steel ones. Finding that students remained docile in spite of this insidious innovation, the haamonsters handed down an even more radical dictum--NO ALCOHOL IN THE STANDS. This, in itself, was enough to drive droves away from the Stadium, but a tenacious few (who had flasks) grimly went on getting tickets...
Carmi hurriedly handed over the money, then feverishly started to remove the rest of the plaster. Sluices of benzine, alcohol, vinegar and lemon juice failed to part plaster from wood, but 24 gallons of acetone finally did the trick. What emerged was an elaborately carved case, featuring a frieze of plump, drunken cherubs hauling their equally drunken queen across the piano face with most unmusical leers. Carmi dug out an old picture of the king's piano. It was the same...