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...dean of U. S. physiologists, Chicago's Anton Julius Carlson, declared that the problem of alcoholism "is too complex for any one of our biological and medical disciplines. The sociologist should be present at the start, and I imagine we will not travel very far before we ask for the aid of the genetecist and the educator. [It] . . . is going to be a labor of Hercules...
...difficult,'' said he, "not to be somewhat amused by this general tendency to put all faith in more research as the solution." Physicians, said he, know enough to cure drunkenness. There are as many varieties of alcoholics as there are cabbages: some have an inferiority complex; some learn in college; others are social misfits or homosexuals. Psychiatrists can cure most alcoholics, provided that: 1) the patient really wants to be cured; 2) he stays with the doctor long enough; 3) the doctor stays with...
...maximum coordination in any event, he would multiply such examples a hundredfold. Furthermore, he would restrict the industry's aircraft production to a few standardized types. These would be mostly trainers and single-engined fighters; to experienced aircraft makers would be left the job of producing more complex bombers...
Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
...Sixth Avenue route, four and a half years abuilding, cost $60,000,000, is the world's most expensive subway mile for mile. As an engineering feat, it is probably the most complex in railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power...