Word: milk
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...relative atomic arsenals of the signatories and the possible diplomatic effects of the treaty, the Senate would be wise to consider another set of statistics, released Saturday by the Public Health Service. According to the Service's measurements, the amount of strontium 90 in the average litre of milk in this country was twice as great last May as in May 1962. Federal Radiation Council scientists estimate that the level of radiation was even higher for June and July. This sharp increase in radioactivity in the atmosphere is a direct result of the nuclear tests by Russia and the United...
...cost of living had spiraled upward a dizzying 70% in a year. It now takes 850 cruzeiros to buy a dollar (up from 500 a year ago). Eight major unions threatened strikes unless they got raises ranging from 40% to 90%, and dairies vowed to turn off the milk if they were not allowed a 50% price increase. Most troublesome of all, the army wanted more money...
...Whitney arrived at the track straight from a nightclub, wearing a ball gown and leading a small pack of dogs. Or the time Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt sent so sorry a horse to the post that he sympathetically gave the jockey-instead of riding orders-a sandwich, a bottle of milk and a wrist compass...
...converged last week on Buenos Aires' fashionable Palermo Park to witness one of the year's most important rites: the judging of prize cattle at the Palermo Agricultural Show. Bulls so fat that they could hardly waddle were accompanied by cows to supply the ten gallons of milk, spiced with two dozen eggs, that the bulls drink each day. Peons attended the beasts' every need and rigidly enforced antinoise regulations during their four-hour siesta. Argentines take the whole thing very seriously, and with good reason: much of their nation's welfare is wrapped...
...students at the University of North Carolina heard from a beatnik friend that it would give them a jag like a combination of the effects of alcohol and LSD or mescaline. The two lads each took two tablespoonfuls, the powder equivalent of two grated nutmegs, in a glass of milk. Within five hours they had a leaden feeling in their feet and legs, and an airy, dreamlike sensation in their heads. Their hearts were beating in double time. They were as red as beets. Both were agitated and apprehensive. Dr. Payne gave the boys a laxative to get the undigested...