Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Took to Port. If some people drink too much, many old people drink too little, suggested Brooklyn's Dr. William Dock. "The carefree attitude derived from alcohol, so dangerous for the automobile driver," he said, "is most helpful for the aging parents of normally ungrateful children, for the man or woman with failing sense organs or vital organs, with dying contemporaries and narrowing circle of friends," or with income eroded by inflation...
...Dock cited three of his own aunts who had lived happily and usefully until they were 70, then began to suffer the afflictions of age. Two took to port wine and gloated that they did not need drugs, while the third took to valerian (a root drug laced with alcohol) and gloated that she did not need wine. All three enjoyed life more (one to the age of 99) and became easier to get along with. "Ever since seeing this," said Dr. Dock, "I have felt that what is needed in retreats for ailing or aged people, and even...
After three days of mixing thinking and drinking, Physiologist Greenberg summed up the symposium consensus: "Alcohol is the safest, most available tranquilizer we have...
...patient gets chilled, give him warm soup, but no alcohol, and add clothing to the unburned part of the body...
Whether or not the 14 students involved in the case were guilty depended on the interpretation of a law forbidding "delivery of alcohol" to a person under 21. The judge in the Haverhill District Court, where the case first was tried, felt that "delivery" included what the students had done, although the consequences of this ruling had been pointed...