Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studying the results of 47 long hormone treatments (26 with ACTH, 21 with cortisone) for a wide range of diseases, the doctors found that 77% were followed by an increase in the amount of cholesterol (a soapy, fatty alcohol) in the patient's blood. So far, nobody fully understands the connection between cholesterol and hardening of the arteries; it may be that only certain giant cholesterol molecules are to blame (TIME, June 5). But, the Mount Sinai doctors warned, enough evidence is already in to demand closer study and great caution...
...things probably combine to make Harvard reunions a success, a well-organized program and alcohol--with the first being far more important. Outsiders frequently connent on the large consumption of liquor at the 25th reunion, but they fail to see the months of planning that went into deciding where the alumni and their families would live at College and what they would...
...sunny-and therefore cheap-side of the bull ring at Zitácuaro overflowed with boisterous aficionados. Noisiest of all was a group of hard-bitten charcoal makers from the Michoacán hills who had stoked up well with charanda (cane alcohol) and come to see the toreros kill six bulls. "Long live Michoacán and her sons of Pancho Villa!" they bellowed...
...Rubber Reserve Corp. asked whisky distillers to divert about 15% of their capacity to the production of industrial alcohol to be used in synthetic rubber plants. (No whisky shortage is feared; there are 542 million gallons net in warehouses, a record high...
...professionally baleful bad characters: the gaunt, string-haired young witch who looks somewhat like a vampire on a vegetable diet; her oily-swarthy spouse who is intended by Addams, a loyal Democrat, to bear a distant resemblance to Governor Dewey; their bloated little boy, who resembles something preserved in alcohol, and a handful of useful extras, including a butler edition of Boris Karloff...