Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is Harvard's (and Yale's) big problem as far as the all-important Olympic trials go. Bolles figures it will take the Crimson Varsity until three days before sprint encounter to build up the normal amount of energy, and that doesn't leave much time to train down to the short distance race...
...other hand, the Crimson faced this problem, with a cross-country train ride thrown in a year ago, and turned up in Seattle just in time to break a world's record over the same distance...
...alcohol, which is "a dangerous enemy, an agreeable acquaintance, and a helpful friend." Doctors should tell their elderly patients whether a drink would help them (alcohol is a vasodilator, relaxing the coronary arteries) or hurt them (cocktails are bad for arthritics). Being overweight is not really a problem of old age, says Dr. Crampton, for fat men seldom live that long. But the public should put more of its money into research into chronic diseases, which make old age miserable. The U.S., says Dr. Crampton, has been spending $22 per death for cancer research, $13,000 per death for infantile...
Insidious Demands. The housewife is still one of TV's biggest question marks. The problem is whether or not women will find time to sit down and look. Yes, says Mullen: "Women find time to play bridge, to shop, to go to Ladies' Aid. They'll find time for television." Radio can be turned on and ignored; TV insidiously demands full attention. There are some who believe that TV may deliver the final blow to the art of conversation...
Casey Sills gets along fine with his trustees. They even forgave him when he ran for Senator on the Democratic ticket ("That's not really being in politics in Maine," he explains). But two years from now, he will give the trustees their first real problem: Casey will be 70, an age when Bowdoin presidents retire...