Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis Beer '66 mashed twelve pancakes together, spent 20 seconds kneading them into a ball, managed to wedge the spongy mass into his mouth, waited till time was up, and suddenly bolted towards the men's room. Thus ended the International House of Pancakes' Boston Area Pancake Eating Contest...
Those last twelve pancakes made all the difference, as Beer and his Radcliffe teammate, Patience Carden '66, out stuffed a team from Brandeis, 150-139, in the half-hour batter battle. Beer's personal achievement--119 pancakes consumed or inserted entirely into his mouth--set a Harvard record, but it was far short of the 248 consumed last year by John Henry, a 6 ft., 5 in, 240-pound, Boston University football tackle...
...Beer and Miss Carden had been in training for a week before the contest. They ate large amounts of starches and sugar to stimulate their pancreases to produce excess insulin, which facilitates digestion. Yesterday morning they consumed nothing but coffee and tea supersaturated with sugar...
...spotted them and opened fire, killing one guerrilla. The noise roused the sleeping Americans, saved many from certain death had the Viet Cong slipped inside. As it was, the attack force riddled Pyle-the eighth American to die at Pleiku-tossed homemade grenades wrapped in bamboo or placed in beer cans at the barracks, wounded 25 Americans...
...been "asked to leave" for drinking and sex offenses. During the recently completed semester, two professors were let go: one, who lectured on hashish, was dismissed after some of his subject was found aboard; the other had violated university rules by entertaining students at jazz and beer parties in his office on the ship's fantail. All in all, says Roberta Mount, "it's really an educational trip...