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...bets at Dallas' Tenison Municipal Golf Course. His favorite trick was to play with an adhesive-wrapped soft drink bottle instead of a club. "I used a Dr. Pepper bottle," says Lee, "because it is smooth, while a Coke bottle is rough. I used the family size, the quart bottle. People would bet me that I couldn't hit the green or make a- putt-and I usually won the bets...
...ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained that Halas provided only two bars of shower soap for 36 men. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk," Halas replied: "What's his address? I'll send him a quart...
...Long Island story begins in Arkansas where a crew chief, himself a Negro, recruits his workers ("All you've got to do is get on my bus"). He barely mentions the $30 fare that begins the treadmill of debt. Sometimes, in picking strawberries at 10? per quart, the migrants earn only $2 for their day's work. But the crew chief deducts $1.25 a day for transportation to the fields. He also overcharges them for their filthy accommodations, for their food (a concession controlled by his wife), and the 51?-a-pint payday wine that he sells...
...Quart for a Gallon. S.U.N.Y., of course, is not alone in having unsolved troubles. All across the U.S., the massive expansion of state systems has created massive problems. The situation, says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, is "like a man trying to fill a gallon jug with not much more than a quart of water." Armies of undergraduates are demanding more teaching attention; at the same time, governments are pleading for more research, which requires new emphasis on graduate studies, and the cities are begging for ideas to help check their spiraling decay...
...considerable amount of gas passes through a normal, healthy digestive system. Dr. Ivan E. Danhof, of the Uni versity of Texas' Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, told the American Medical Association last week that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda...