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...seemed wildly improbable. But when Bell Telephone Laboratories' Telstar sullenly ignored a command after four months of faithful performance, Bell's electronic doctors wasted no time. While unresponsive Telstar circled the earth in silence, they spent six frantic weeks in their labs concocting a cure for its ailment...
...season, were some what surprised when the team faltered in mid-season and had to scramble for a tie for the Ivy League championship. Bothered by injuries and perhaps a touch of overconfidence, the squad failed to live up to all its press notices. Chris Ohiri, whose chronic leg ailment cost coach Bruce Munro hours of sleep, did manage, however, to set a new Harvard career record for goals scored with...
...stock sale eased Green Bay's finances, but now the Packers suffered from another, more obstinate ailment: anemia on the football field. Feeding on heftier bankrolls, the big-city teams-the New York Giants. Los Angeles Rams. Cleveland Browns. Detroit Lions-ruled the league. Starting in 1948. the small-town Packers went eleven years without a winning season. In 1958. they won only one game Tout of twelve). Things got so bad that Green Bay youngsters tore up their autograph books and Packer coaches wisely left their telephones off the hook. "A small town." says Coach Harland Svare...
...Francisco Franco's rebel air force during the Spanish Civil War, a Cuban-born marquis who as a young man was an avid balloonist fired up by the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian population, killing 1,654 in a few hours. That was a Nazi...
...Rome Pope John XXIII was on his way "to a complete recovery," and appeared at St. Peter's to close the first session of the Second Vatican Council. Meanwhile in Boston, Richard Cardinal Gushing, 67, allowed as how he, too, suffers from a stomach ailment-bleeding ulcers-and recalled discussing it two months ago with the Pontiff. Warmly sympathetic, the Pope recommended a little bicarbonate of soda before going to bed. "Your Holiness," replied Gushing, "thank God you're not infallible when prescribing medicine. That's the worst thing you can take for ulcers...