Word: lactic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...origin of the wine's restorative power is being called into question: Ferrari wine, charged the prosecution, is artificial. Police cited a variety of recipes for making such concoctions, listing such unlikely ingredients as tar acid, ammonia, glycerin, zinc sulphate, seaweed, banana paste, citric acid, lactic acid, a pungent liquid dredged from the bottom of banana boats, and ox's blood. The prosecution also said that illegal chemical substances and hidden vats of artificial wine were seized at the Ferrari plants...
...breathing" through its mother's blood, then is catapulted into an air-breathing world. Dr. L. Stanley James, of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, has tested newborn babies' blood. It contains chemicals showing that muscles were burning up starch and turning it into lactic acid during birth. If a birth takes unusually long, the concentration of lactic acid increases; it is a measure of how severely the baby's life has been threatened by oxygen starvation...
...heart did it. Now, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. White and Dr. James H. Currens report what they found after DeMar died. They had good bases for comparison. Studied by physiologists in 1928 and 1953, DeMar had shown only a small rise in circulating lactic acid and a small drop in carbonic acid after exercise as compared with a healthy man who was not in training. These muscle-exhaustion measurements suggested a rich blood supply, and, as expected, Runner DeMar's heart turned out to be unusually large and muscular...
Deflected Inquiries. Nichols, now 28, was born in Berlin of Russian-Jewish parents who fled the Nazis and settled in Manhattan, where his physician father set up practice. Acquiring his wholesome, lactic accents in a series of private schools, Mike went on to the University of Chicago as a pre-med student but soon drifted toward the theater. A year younger than Mike, Elaine was equally adrift when they met in 1955. Born in Philadelphia, the daughter of the late Yiddish Actor Jack Berlin, she has seen the inside of more high schools around the country than James B. Conant...