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...Crimson squad can easily be likened to some sort of sophisticated computer system. Stowell only needs to punch in the name of Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace and out come ten points in the long jump and triple jump. He presses another button and Sam Butler places first in the high and 440 yard hurdles. A third selection and Jay Hughes takes the hammer throw and shot...
...National Institute of Mental Health estimates, one of every five or six alcoholics was a woman; the ratio is now one woman for every four men. These figures may in fact be understating the problem for women, because a nonworking woman, who does not have to punch a time clock or stand scrutiny in the office, finds it easier than her husband might to hide her habit. One alcoholic housewife in Miami admitted stashing Clorets in every jacket pocket and downstairs drawer to disguise her liquor breath from unexpected callers. Others try to hide their alcoholic breath by sipping Listerine...
...total quantity of alcohol in a drink and the rate of consumption determine the alcohol level in the bloodstream. Thus a Scotch and water would pack the same punch as Scotch on the rocks or a Scotch and soda if all three were drunk at the same speed; drinking more slowly gives the system a chance to eliminate some of the alcohol. The mixing of different types-beer, wine, whisky and brandy, for instance-might make a drinker sick, but it would not make him any more drunk than the same alcoholic measure of just one of these drinks...
...regard were worth thousands. A building superintendent who fished a landscape out of a garbage can ten years ago was assured by the experts that it was worth $6,500. A Brooklyn couple who brought in what they thought was a "Communion tray" learned that it was an enamel punch bowl crafted by a czarist court silversmith, worth up to $15,000. A Manhattan secretary who produced a battered pottery dog used as a plaything by her children was informed that it was Ha'n dynasty (206 B.C.A.D. 220) porcelain, worth $5,250, which might have fetched...
...League teams will be able to match a healthy Harvard quarter mile line-up. When Nick Leone and Joel Peter aren't nursing injuries, they have a one-two punch in the low 50-second range that could be tops in the 440 circuit...