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...help fill out the squad, the "Mighty mite" aka Wiley McCarthy from Decatur, Georgia, will back back in a Crimson uniform. At 4-ft., 10-in., McCarthy has both endurance and speed which allows her to clock a two-mile race outdoors in under 11 minutes...
...help fill out the squad, the "Mighty mite" aka Wiley McCarthy from Decatur, Georgia, will back back in a Crimson uniform. At 4-ft., 10-in., McCarthy has both endurance and speed which allows her to clock a two-mile race outdoors in under 11 minutes...
Again, it was the news columns that prepared the way for open editorial expressions of support for the Shah. The Associated Press blamed the crisis on the Shah's attempt to bring Iran's "feudalistic society into the modern (aka western) world." The New York Times, on November 6, committed one of the most egregious examples of slanted coverage when it wrote that "the Shah even invited (opposition leader) Mr. Sanjabi to the palace was a dramatic compromise for him. The founder of Mr. Sanjabi's party, Mohammed Mossadegh, almost ousted the Shah from power in 1953." The Times story...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
...Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito, a young man of well-defined lineage, lost his great & good friend, Aka, a dog of questionable ancestry. Most likely explanation of the disappearance: dog meat is a staple item on the Japanese black market...