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...have a more intimate understanding of the doomsday scenario than Bernard T. Gallagher. Known to his friends as Bud, he was a Strategic Air Command pilot and served as director of Mount Weather for 25 years, until his retirement last March. A robust 70 years old, he wears a white cowboy hat, drives a hot-pink '65 Mustang convertible and is an unabashed patriot. As an "atomic-cloud sampler," he flew through the billowing mushrooms of 13 U.S. nuclear blasts in 1952 and 1953. To measure the radiation passing through him, he swallowed an X-ray plate coated with Vaseline...
...product," recalls psychopharmacologist Gilbert Honigfeld, who helped develop the drug for Sandoz and is now in charge of marketing it in the U.S. American and European research eventually showed that agranulocytosis occurred in 1% to 2% of clozapine patients and that it could be detected and nipped in the bud by conducting blood tests on a weekly basis...
Meanwhile, player salaries have leaped to an average of $1 million a year, in contrast to $369,000 in 1985. At least 271 players -- among them such lackluster performers as Giants pitcher Bud Black, who has a career losing record, and Minnesota Twins infielder Mike Pagliarulo, whose lifetime batting average is a pathetic .236 -- have joined the millionaires' club. While players have mainly free agency to thank, they have also been able to score big bucks through salary arbitration. Much to the dismay of owners, labor mediators called in to settle contract disputes have awarded players hefty pay hikes...
Indeed, if deLone ever becomes known around the country (an possibly the world) for her punishing baseline tennis game, her year at Harvard might well be the subject of sports trivia questions or Bud Collins' anecdotes...
...typical Harvard social life complaint, according to Barron's Top 50: An Inside Look at America's Best Colleges, goes something like this; "No one has relationships here; it's all one-night stands after too much Bud and play at sympathy over a Husky Club at the Tasty...