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...year-old Ballantine's Scotch that he consumed in moderate rations (down from the half quart a day of former times) ever dull his tart, epigrammatic wit. Conductors, critics and colleagues regularly felt its sting. Stravinsky once said of Leopold Stokowski that "he must have spent an hour a day trying to find the perfect bisexual hairdo." He called New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant "W.S. Deaf." Of a new Gian Carlo Menotti opera, he said, "It is 'farther out' than anything I've seen in a decade; in the wrong direction, of course." He also...
...Four-Quart Goal. The amount of work that muscles do can be measured by the amount of oxygen they consume. Soon after Cooper entered the Air Force in 1960, he was assigned to its School of Aerospace Medicine near San Antonio. Using thousands of airmen as his captive subjects, Cooper hit upon a twelve-minute run (now recommended only for men under 30) as the basic test. If the greatest distance a man can cover in those twelve minutes is less than a mile, he is in Cooper's very poor" fitness category. If he weighs...
...time being, however, Allende has never been more popular with Chileans at large. He has distributed some 5,230 tons of powdered milk in a heroic (though not quite successful) effort to keep his campaign pledge to provide a quart of milk a day for every Chilean under 15. His government has ordered 500,000 pairs of shoes for free distribution to rural schoolchildren. He has refused to permit the customary presidential portrait to be hung in government buildings and budgeted the savings to rural health programs. By imposing price controls, he hopes to shrink inflation from...
Craven said that while he was on a National Student Association trip to Hanoi, the president of the Supreme Court of North Vietnam told him that "due to the chemical warfare of the Americans, a South Vietnamese woman who drank a half quart of water from river was six times more likely to have her baby born deformed than a mother who had lived through Hiroshima...
...contradictions, frustrations and despairs of life under 30. It was her special gift that nightly she seemed to triumph over her burdens in concerts that were a kind of cathartic theater of the young. Her exuberances, her frenzies, her "highs" set off chain explosions in the audiences. The quart bottle of Southern Comfort that she held aloft onstage was at once a symbol of her load and a way of lightening it. As she emptied the bottle, she grew happier, more radiant, and more freaked out. The spread of the feet grew wider, the stomp more frantic. The flopping...