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...team faced Dartmouth earlier this winter I put my money (actually it was a six-pack of Tuborg) on the Big Green, figuring that the Indians (oops, can't call them that anymore) were too strong for Don Gambril's team. Harvard, however, won decisively and I lost the brew...
...unshakeable vigor, Tip O'Neill has eloquently led House Democrats in barrage after barrage on President Nixon's Economic Report and impoundment of funds: "I find the President's Economic Report deficient on both humanitarian and economic grounds. It is obviously a blueprint for repetition of the economic witches' brew which featured the first two years of the Nixon Administration. That unhappy era was characterized by what economists had previously felt was unattainable: soaring prices and escalating unemployment at the same time...
More than half the book is a recapitulation of Teamster corruption just before and during Hoffa's tenure as international president. This is a familiar witch's brew of paper locals, hanky-panky with the enormous pension funds, involvement with a Mafia Who's Who, intimidation of the few labor leaders who protested the corruption of their union. Far fresher-and perhaps even more significant at this stage-is Sheridan's detailed reconstruction of the efforts, after Hoffa's convictions, to keep him out of jail and, those failing, to get him an early release...
...Americans love coffee; they consumed 13.6 lbs. per person last year. But their taste for the brew may be dangerous. A team of physicians from Boston University Medical Center reports in Lancet that people who drink more than five cups of coffee a day are twice as likely to suffer heart attacks as people who drink no coffee at all. The researchers base their hypothesis on a study of 276 patients admitted to hospitals with acute myocardial infarctions. The team found that those patients and 1,104 others who were used as controls differed little in medical history or smoking...
Still, the all-you-can-eat theme keeps spreading, and profits keep rolling in. Explains Larry Ellman, whose 37-unit Steak and Brew chain offers unlimited amounts of salad, drinks and bread with a modestly priced entree: "The person who eats too much is a fantastic advertisement for us, because he'll tell other people about his great buy." Fifteen Steak and Brew establishments are on the drawing boards, and further expansion seems to be limited only by the output of world agriculture. "We've never run out of food," boasts Robert Gladstone, manager...