Word: quart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been sent home and put on homemade formula soon enough to head off death. But some had been sent home with a day's supply of the salty formula. One of these was Lisa Marie Bealo, whose photographer father reported: "We brought the baby home with a quart of formula. She wouldn't take it. She gagged and made a gurgling noise. She was supposed to have four ounces, but we managed to make her swallow only an ounce. She drank water though. We took her back to the hospital." A day and a half later, she died...
Milk's slump is generally attributed to three factors: 1) high price, about 25? a quart in most city stores, 2) fear that strontium 90 particles from Russia's atomic tests have contaminated milk, and 3) the theory that milk, as a major source of cholesterol, the fatty substance that clogs blood vessels, may be a cause of heart disease. President Kennedy last week argued that milk is a good buy. He gently reassured the strontium 90 worriers: "The cow itself, along with other factors, makes our milk very safe." And he tut-tutted the cholesterol carpers...
Shelter dwellers should provision themselves with at least a two-week supply of both water and food. For drinking, one quart of water per shelter occupant per day is considered necessary; in addition, another daily half-gallon per person is recommended for washing and other sanitation purposes. Although water should be stored in plastic or metal containers-blast might break glass bottles-anything would do in an emergency. The food should be imperishable or long-lasting, and neither salty nor sweet, to inhibit thirst. Says Margaret Moore, nutritionist for the Louisiana Board of Health: "Keep a few canned vegetables...
...Specially treated contact lenses (cost: $160) that are almost undetectable. Tinted red, the lenses can catch card markings (made with a special ink that Karnov sells for $10 a quart) that the naked eye would miss. Senator Karl Mundt tried on a pair of similarly treated, standard-size glasses, solemnly warned his colleagues: "Beware the red-eyed gambler...
Things are going dandily-the boys are $18,000 ahead-but the admiral (Dean Jagger) has noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...