Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proof Positive. In Geneva, World Health Organization officials sent out invitations to a showing of the movie Alcohol and Alcoholism, assured guests that "cocktails will be served...
...Protestant campaign against Smith showed a ferocity that would be impossible in the more homogenized U.S. of 1960. He was referred to as "Alcohol) Smith." Widely circulated stories reported him so drunk at public functions that cronies had to support him to keep him from falling down. The Ku Klux Klan issued a "Klarion Kail for a Krusade" against him, attacked him repeatedly in the Klan publication, Fellowship Forum. A typical Forum cartoon showed what a Cabinet meeting would be like if Smith got elected: the Pope and a dozen fat priests sitting happily around the table, with Smith...
Most treacherous of all is nitrogen narcosis-"rapture of the depths." Below 140 ft. the buildup of nitrogen in a diver's body somehow drugs his senses as alcohol does. Magnificently drunk, the diver becomes an underwater god. He may offer his mouthpiece to a passing fish. Maurice Fargues, a great diver on the Cousteau team, was brought up dead from 394 ft., his mouthpiece hanging loose around his neck. "I personally am quite receptive to nitrogen narcosis," says Cousteau. "I love it and fear it like doom...
...Bristol, England, Barbara Rogers, 19, newly elected Temperance Queen of Bristol, returned her crown and robes, admitted: "I had my first drink at a Christmas party, and since then I have had alcohol several times." Scenic Wonders. In Cavite province, the Philippines, officials posted on billboards huge blowups of 50 of their most wanted criminals, on second thought took them all down for fear they might scare off tourists...
This straightforward procedure contrasted sharply with the complications of needle sterilization and alcohol swabbing with the injected Salk vaccine. And it was free of pain and the slight risks of needle jabs. Though a few vaccine swallowers (including adults) made wry faces, they need not have; the almost imperceptible flavor was pleasant. (But one pediatrician, knowing his clientele, took the added precaution of mixing the vaccine with a cola drink.) 700 an Hour. Almost 200,000 requests for the vaccine were in before the test began, and the biggest problem was getting the stuff to all who wanted it. Tourists...