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Joyce Brown, a 40-year-old former stenographer, has lived for the past year on a Manhattan sidewalk. Crouched over a hot-air vent, she fended off winter sleet. Panhandling, she dined for $7 a day on juice, a quart of milk, a pint of ice cream and a chicken cutlet from the corner delicatessen. She relieved herself in the gutter, huddled beneath a tattered coat. Crazy or not, Brown claims to know what she wants. "Some people are street people," she says. "That's the life they choose to lead...
...forthcoming memoirs, Behind the Scenes (Morrow; $17.95), to be excerpted in next month's issue of LIFE magazine, Deaver, 49, says he was secretly drinking up to a quart of Scotch a day during his last year in the White House. The pressure of the capital, his associates now say, as well as financial and family problems, was getting to the President's high-strung friend...
...degrees F). And that suddenly brings superconductivity into the range of the practical; liquid helium can be replaced as a coolant by liquid nitrogen, which makes the transition from a gas at the easily produced temperature of 77 K (-320 degrees F). Moreover, liquid nitrogen is cheaper by the quart than milk and so long- lasting that scientists carry it around in ordinary thermos bottles. Also, the & ceramics may be able to generate even more intense magnetic fields than metallic superconductors. Thus, if these new substances can be turned into practical devices -- and most scientists believe they can -- technology will...
Freshman year we'd get the cheap stuff--quart bottles of Magnum or Olde English 800--and sometimes we'd splurge for a shorty (12-pack) of Henry's, a local brew which soon became our beer of choice. Then we'd go to the usual outdoor drinking spots, the names of which have been around since long before our time--Inspo, Arbo, the Circle, the Crest, the Peanut Bowl, the Meadow, the 18th Hole, the Water Towers, the list went...
...police report that after her doctor warned her to stay off her feet and not to take illegal drugs or to engage in sexual intercourse, Pamela Monson took amphetamines and had sex with her husband. Later she began to hemorrhage and lost over a quart of blood, but she did not seek medical help for several hours...