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Alcoholic Solace. Dr. William J. Mills Jr. of Anchorage, Alaska, an orthopedist and consultant to the U.S. Army on cold-weather injuries, is a pioneer of the new therapy. Writing in Emergency Medicine, he describes a typical course of treatment. If the victim is still out in the field several hours away from professional help, says Mills, rescuers should quickly attempt to thaw the frostbitten part; one method is to tuck a frozen hand, say, under the rescuer's armpit. The temperature, in any case, should be about 100° F.; anything much higher than body temperature can cause...
...arranged or participated in the service sit up front on the dias in theater seats with green padding. This 90-minute service, followed by separate classes on Mormon doctrine and the final Sacraments meeting at 6:30 p.m., included individual speeches and music. The Mormon hymns have a sharp pioneer flavor. ("Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin...
Succulent Dish. A pioneer shark promoter is New Orleans' Preston Battistella, 50, one of the biggest fish wholesalers on the Eastern seaboard. In 1973, when he started handling shark meat, Battistella sold 60,000 Ibs.; in 1975 his volume was more than 300,000 Ibs. His biggest breakthrough came after he invited the New Orleans school board to lunch and served them "fish Creole." When he identified the succulent dish as shark, selling for only 75? per lb., v. $3.50 per lb. for pompano or snapper, he landed a three-month contract to sell the school system...
...next development in watches, a few Christmases hence, will be the nuclear timepiece, powered by a radioactive cell that will last 50 years. Until then, Pulsar, a pioneer digital manufacturer, has decided to more than make do with existing technology. It has put together what it calls the "personal information center"-a digital watch combined with a miniaturized calculator that enables the wearer to add, subtract, divide and multiply. It can calculate figures up to 999 billion, and has a memory bank. Pulsar will manufacture only a limited number of the solid-gold, 22-key calculator watches...
Last week one of the pioneer REITS, Boston-based Continental Mortgage Investors, the nation's second largest, provided the latest example of how bad things have become in the REIT industry. It announced that it would default on $551 million in interest and principal payments now due on its borrowings. Caught by shrinking revenues and interest rates of 12% and more, Continental raised rates to builders to 16% or 17%. The builders could not afford such rates and simply walked away from projects. At one point, more than 60% of Continental's loans to builders had either been...