Word: pints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet," he says, "and disperse anybody who comes up to me and says, 'You are here because of who you are and not because of your talent.' " He also disperses a shower of eccentricities. He makes his own breakfast, tossing two bananas, three eggs, half a pint of milk and some Bosco into a Waring Blendor. He flies kites. He wears cowboy boots with his tuxedo. He drives a silver 390-h.p. Facel-Vega sports car. "I've had beers in every kind of bar in this country." he drawls, "and I've raced with every...
...Good Earth. Puckish, pint-sized (5 ft. 5 in.) Jeno Paulucci, an Italian immigrant's son from the Minnesota iron range, started in the food business helping his mother sell home-canned pasta in her living room, later worked as a sidewalk vegetable barker and roaming grocery salesman. Just after World War II, he bought a Chinese food cannery in Duluth, and in 1947 began to turn out a spicy chow mein derived from recipes that he whipped up himself on his mother's stove. "It's not so bland as Chinese chow mein." he explains...
Through its 55 regional donor centers, the Red Cross now drains off 2,500,000 pints of blood a year, or 45% of the national consumption. The Red Cross pays donors nothing and does not sell its blood; the only charges it permits are for processing ($3 to $8 a pint) and for actual transfusion by the hospital ($10 to $15 a pint...
...Pints for One. Most of the 812 blood banks enrolled in AABB are in hospitals, though some are community and private (but nonprofit) ventures. They collect more than 2,000,000 pints, mainly from family and friends of patients, but partly from paid donors who get an average of $15 a pint. Unlike the Red Cross, which exacts no more than pint-for-pint replacement, some hospital banks demand two pints for one. A common compromise is to take two pints for the patient's first transfusion pint, to cover waste and spoilage, and then accept pint for pint...
...their Christmas trees from paint-sprayed tumbleweed, and in towns throughout the country prizes will go to the families with the best Christmas decorations. In Seattle derelicts from Skid Row will have their Christmas dinner at the "Millionaire Club" and exchange "gifts": a pack of cigarettes, a half-emptied pint of whisky, a thumb-worn magazine, some tongue-worn memories. In Long Beach, Calif., the whole town will turn out for the annual parade of Christmas floats on the canal. Little schoolchildren will come home brimming with gaiety, to show their flour-and-water pasted Christmas cards to the family...