Word: linens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frank Boykin proclaimed indefatigably, "everything's made for love." And during his 28 years as U.S. Representative from Alabama, omnia vicit amor. Wrapped perennially in a white linen suit, his huge (250 lbs.) frame topped by a theatrical thatch of silver hair, he looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming...
...face of the scrumbling, HSA officials took the names of the students and promised that their linen would be delivered to their rooms as soon as the Gordon Linen Service delivered...
...linen depot is Matthews Hall last night, but without very much linen. After less than as hour of operation, angry freshmen flooded the CRIMSON with visits and phone calls, calling for an end to what one '69er called "sheety inefficiency...
...dangerous and persistent infections in many parts of the body. Ironically, the kinds of "staph" commonly found in hospitals are the worst of all, because they have developed resistance to most of the antibiotics around them. They are spread, usually from wounds or boils, not only on patients' linen, but also on nurses' hands and surgeons' breath, and even through air ducts. Newborn babies, with practically no resistance, are especially susceptible. Some hospital nurseries have been decimated by staph epidemics...
Except for its saucy rows of opaque lemon awnings, the four-story building next to the Düsseldorf railway station might almost pass for a clinic. Attendants carry stacks of fresh linen through its quiet halls. Its pleasant central dining room keeps hospital hours: breakfast from 8 to 10, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. Its 228 tenants, each of whom is examined by city doctors at least twice a week, spend most of their time...