Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's able School Superintendent Calvin Gross (TIME cover, Nov. 15) fervently wants to equalize Negro schools with a "saturation" dose of extra money and better teachers. "But you can't get enough money from the city or state," counters the Rev. Milton A. Galamison, a Brooklyn Presbyterian minister and graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, who heads a committee that unifies Negro organizations...
Paley has a double dose of nervous energy and, expending it, there is nothing he would rather do than flail away at a golf ball. He will often ask four or five couples out for the weekend, taking the men guests with him to the golf course, where he competes tensely and excitedly and clobbers them with his 15 handicap. What do the women do while the men play? Paley pauses, never having considered that. "I don't know what the hell they do do," he says...
This neat reasoning has one major flaw. Where a publisher has the field to himself, his newspaper can be a mediocre hodgepodge of rural obits on the front page, disjointed wire-service pieces, syndicated advice columns, plus a heavy dose of detailed high school sports coverage. Yet it will blanket the area, carry all the advertising the marketplace can afford, and make as much money as any Pulitzer prizewinner would in the same situation...
Breath Control. Anyone who consumes a small amount of botulin-contaminated food develops double vision, photophobia, giddiness and sometimes nausea. Muscle spasm makes swallowing painful or impossible. Recovery takes weeks. A bigger dose usually causes death by knocking out the central nervous system's breathing control...
Background exposure to radiation is about five rem for a non-smoker, and for the heavy smoker about 36 rem. Even this estimate "is probably conservative, and the dose could be 100 rem or more," when the additional radioactive effect of lead 210 and bismuth 210 absorption is included, the report says...