Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Depressed psychiatric patients taking a "psychic energizing" drug called Parnate (tranylcypromine) went through a disheartening experience two years ago. When they ate cheese or drank red wine their hearts pounded, their blood pressure zoomed and their heads ached in tensely. Last week Parnate patients were notified of a new food to delete from their diet: pickled herring...
...that herring and Parnate had never been considered a dangerous combination until a 54-year-old patient turned up with the same painful symptoms that racked the cheese eaters. Analysis showed that some herring the patient had eaten was rich in the same amines that occur in cheese and wine. Those amines are normally oxidized into harmless body chemicals. But the enzyme that is supposed to do the oxidizing is monoamine oxidase, the very enzyme that Parnate neutralizes to achieve its antidepressant effect. The mixture of drug and delicacy thus overloaded the victims' brains with amines that sent blood...
...longer vacations (four weeks in France) and more legal holidays (14 in Sweden) than in the U.S. They also cling to their own ways, no matter what the efficiency experts say: Germans like their bottle of beer on the job, the French must have their daily liter of wine, and the Spaniards insist on a three-hour siesta at midday. A U.S.-owned factory in Amsterdam barely averted a walkout over how the cafeteria food should be seasoned, and an exasperated U.S. executive in France found that, after one worker complained of a draft, he had to discuss for hours...
...sixth of a mile long, has more swimming pools than any other ship (three each for adults and children-all outdoors and heated) and more art than several substantial museums. It has 30 bars, lounges and public galleries, and in its ample pantries carries 23,000 liters of wine, 3,500 liters of champagne and Asti Spumante and 330 Ibs. of Iranian caviar. The ship also carries, however, a technical flaw common to many new ships: strong vibrations caused by slight faults in the propellers, which will be replaced when it returns to Genoa...
...inhabitants and bringing in $523 million in foreign exchange. The visitors come for the Vienna Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival, and to ski at resorts like Obergurg, Kitzbuehel, and St. Anton, but above all for the easy informality of Austrian life and the mellow sentimentality of the neighborhood Heurigen (wine festivals). After all, says one Viennese student, "We like eating, drinking, dancing and loving. If that's not the good life, it'll do until something better comes along...