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...them $80,000 a year." When ancient Archie Moore prepared to defend his light-heavyweight boxing title, Murray took unsentimental note of Moore's brocaded ring bathrobe and droopy trunks, which "made him look like a guy who just got out of a hotel fire in time." When pint-sized Jerry Barber won the P.G.A. golf tournament, Murray suggested that Barber was "the only guy who ever won that trophy who could take a bath...
Measuring the intake of drinkers, the institute divided them into two general groups. Nonproblem drinkers include the "occasionals" (45 million), who drink less than a pint of whisky each month, the moderates (6 million), whose intake is about three-quarters of a pint a week apiece and the social drinkers (7.5 million), who account for a quart each per week. Problem drinkers are weighed by the day. Pre-alcoholics (4.1 million) each drink just under a pint a day, while the full-fledged alcoholic (5.4 million) drinks just a little bit more...
...theory that hard liquor would only bring out the savage in the black man, South Africa's white bosses for years have sternly forbidden intoxicants to the Africans. All the natives are allowed is thick, weak "kaffir beer" sold for seven cents per pint at government beer halls...
...year-old woman in Pontiac General Hospital was anemic and needed blood transfusions to build her up for an operation. From the refrigerator, doctors took a pint of matching (Group A, Rh-positive) blood that had been stored for 19 days and transfused it into one of her veins. By the next day her blood counts were somewhat better, but to be on the safe side, the doctors gave her the concentrated cells from another pint of blood from the same donor...
...cadaver blood offers several advantages. A living donor may lie about his health, especially about such a vital question as whether he has had hepatitis. Moreover, he cannot comfortably give more than a pint every two or three months. The corpse cannot lie, and the pathologists doing an autopsy can check every vital organ for disease-including the liver for evidence of hepatitis. They select as donors only the corpses of presumably healthy individuals who die suddenly, as in traffic accidents or from heart attacks. A cadaver yields far more blood than a walking donor: the Pontiac investigators have drawn...