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Lowell served on the committee appointed by then-Massachusetts Gov. Alvan T. Fuller to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case following the men's execution...
Regardless of method, the quest for permanent slimness is rarely rewarding. According to Dr. Alvan Feinstein of Yale medical school, the success rate of weight-loss programs is "terrible, much worse than in cancer." Out of every 100 obese patients, some doctors have found, only a dozen can be expected to lose significant amounts of weight in a yearlong treatment program. Of that happy dozen, ten can be expected to gain back their excess poundage during the following year...
...ALVAN KNOT...
...meeting of 53 men in a small wooden schoolhouse on the Ripon College campus on March 20, 1854. They assembled on a cold night, held their discussion by the light of tallow candles. "We went into the little meeting Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats," one of their leaders, Alvan E. Bovay, later recalled. "We came out Republicans...
...take over the direction of a U.S. thermonuclear retaliation. Through a multiple-checked series of authentications, he would break open a locked "red box" and issue the "Go" orders to missile sites and bomber bases that would send nuclear warheads toward preselected targets. Says one AEAO officer, Major General Alvan C. Gillem: "If I were the last remaining American, I wouldn't sit there and do nothing...