Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...munched extra vitamins, hired six runners to act as pacesetters and a nurse to administer alcohol foot rubs. For all that, protean Hustler Bobby Riggs, 57, won his 25-mile foot race across California's Death Valley against Aussie Distance Runner Bill Emmerton, 56, by a scant 40 minutes. Emmerton had to run the 25-mile course twice and still managed to finish in less than nine hours. "I was ready to play some tennis, but the Death Valley courts aren't lighted, and it was dark by the time Emmerton came in," said Bobby with typical modesty...
...familiar with the case: "I think Hyland's purpose is to cover himself just to make sure there was no foul play." Whatever the motive, it appears that Quinlan's life-style underwent some marked changes during the months before she took the combination of drugs and alcohol that is believed to be responsible for the coma. She apparently fell into a depression in midspring, when a close relationship came to an end. Karen and another woman had once been inseparable, according to companions; but when the friendship ended, Karen was seriously upset...
...ceramics company and had no way to raise the money. Indications are that she became involved with a low-level New Jersey underworld figure who supplied her with drugs. That became one more reason to set her brooding-and may have made the careless mixture of drugs and alcohol more likely. It now seems clear that Quinlan's life was changing faster than she could quite comprehend in the weeks just before it slipped from her control altogether...
...some troubled drinkers think they are getting less belt from their highballs these days, they are right. Many liquor companies have been putting more distilled water and less alcohol into whisky and gin. During the past 20 months, the distillers of more than 100 labeled brands, including Seagram's 7 Crown, Four Roses, Hiram Walker's Imperial American blended whisky and Jim Beam bourbon, have reduced the proof from 86 to 80-without lowering the price or advertising the fact beyond printing the new proof on bottle labels. (Proof is twice the percentage of alcohol: an 86-proof...
...word "risk" often brings to mind medical or biological dangers-- chancy new surgical techniques or the testing of possibly toxic new drugs. But although psychological research sometimes entails physical risk--Leary was not alone in testing drugs, and electric shock, loud sudden noise and alcohol have all been used recently in William James-- more often the dangers are to the mind. Experimental psychology can invade subjects' privacy, stressfully manipulate their minds, or coerce them into unpleasant situations by intentionally deceiving them...