Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With exam period in full swing, Square merchants are reporting a sharp increase in No-Doz sales to sleepy-eyed students. Although sleeping pills and tranquilizers are not quite keeping pace with No-Doz sales, which have tripled at many stores, vitamin pills and Metrecal are also going at a faster rate than usual...
...superbly conditioned athlete, Gimeno is unruffled by the rigors of the professional tour. He invariably falls asleep as soon as he sinks into an airplane seat, voraciously gobbles steaks and vitamin pills. He is also hungry to improve his game. "From Pancho Gonzales," says Gimeno, "I learn to throw the ball further in front of me when I serve, so I get more power. From Lew Hoad I learn to hit the ball harder. But always from myself I learn to fight like a lion." Gimeno is assured of a lion's share of the kitty: Promoter Kramer...
...Bundestag Deputies thought of Socialist Alfred Frenzel, 61, as a dull fellow but a beaver for work. His diligent legislative spadework on any topic assigned him earned him a prized seat on the defense committee. There one of his proudest accomplishments was pushing through the adoption of a new vitamin-enriched bread for the West German army. Said a colleague: "No report was too tedious for him, no inspection trip too long...
...incubating, but gamma globulin shots are painful, costly and scarce. The PHS's protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...
...swimming, Australia's barrel-chested John Konrads, 18, will be the man to beat in the 400 and 1,500 meters. The greatest swimmer in history, Konrads drives himself six miles a day in training, gulps as many as 18 vitamin pills before a race, treats distance events as sprints and holds seven world records. But Konrads may have to swim faster than ever before to beat Teammate Murray Rose, 21, winner of both the 400 and 1,500 meters at Melbourne's 1956 Olympics, and Japan's stocky Tsuyoshi Yamanalca, 21, who has smoothed...