Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only 70 seconds before the B-29 crew was to release the plane, an explosion ripped through the X-1A. The blast shook up Pilot Joseph Walker, but he carefully turned off cockpit switches, began jettisoning the rocket's highly volatile fuel (hydrogen peroxide, liquid oxygen, alcohol, water). Then he crawled groggily up into the belly of the B29. The B-29's civilian skipper, Stan Butchart, hoped to land his valuable cargo without further trouble, but the chase plane's pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks...
...serenity and the wages of virtue-shock, plus a married life endangered from the start . ._ " [After] the sheer fatigue of the weddin day [there is] inevitably a long evening or night's traveling to complete the exhaustion. Strange circumstances in a distant hotel; a good deal of alcohol perhaps, or worse, the hangover from it six hours ago-these all make the [male] as . . . ineffectual as[he] is ever likely to be In addition, the lore of the honeymoon-the vast repertory of awful jokes, none dignified-may be added to the anxiety ... At best there...
...years. Police set up roadblocks, sent men into all public conveyances to check identity cards, and searched all outgoing ships. Strengthened army patrols combed the frontiers to the north. The Vourlon Prison director was fired, and a dozen of his guards placed under investigation (one drenched himself with alcohol and set himself afire as a result), but all for nothing: the birds had flown. "Nobody," cracked one Athens newsman, "ever got out of a brothel so cheap." Meanwhile, across the border in Rumania, the Communist radio urged "all Greek patriots" to assist those who had escaped "from the jails...
Radioman M. was different. He had committed aggravated assault, under the influence of so much alcohol that he could not remember his offense, and therefore could not feel guilty about it. Explained Psychologist Grant's assistant, Virginia Ives: "The alcoholism was only a symptom. M. had an idealistic, religious mother and an alcoholic, atheistic father. In a typical I-4 conflict, M. saw himself wavering between wanting to be like his mother and like his father. In a group therapy session he saw others struggling with similar problems of ideals and behavior. He gained considerable insight into...
...neurosurgeon named Earl in a Western state had always been fortune's darling; class president from high school through medical school and a professional success, he had never lost family or income because of alcohol. ("I made more money the last year of my drinking than I ever made before in my whole life.") He knew that something had to give when he found that the drinks he craved made him miserable even before they made him drunk. His wife read him an A.A. pamphlet. For the moment it had no effect. But a few evenings later...