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Bradley University (undergraduate enrollment: 3,341) of Peoria, Ill. has capitalized handsomely on a beguiling fact of modern athletics: a small school with old-time amateur spirit and a few basketballs can get famous as fast as a big, rich school with an expensive stadium and a whole carload of money-hungry football beeves. When Bradley basketballers ended their season by polishing off Drake University 92-63 last week, they had proved themselves the class of the Missouri Valley Conference, and one of the hottest teams in the nation...
Drug manufacturers were making feverish claims that anti-histaminics (anti-allergy drugs) would cure the common cold, and they were selling their new medicines by the carload. But last week the American Medical Association, through its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, announced sternly that it "is not convinced that [present evidence] is sufficient to warrant the positive statements that are being made...
...vegetables. She collected old clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
...window broken, eight cars were overturned, 145 people were hurt. Westchester County authorities blamed "teen-agers," commended the 904 policemen for preventing "mass killings." But the police, for all their numbers, flopped dismally and some seemed hardly interested in preserving order. One cop, reporting a brush with a Robesonite carload, announced proudly: "We beat hell out of them. I got two myself." Commented the New York Herald Tribune: "An inexcusable episode." The Communists, of course, were delighted with...
...need no baby sitter," growled Mickey. Mickey never carries a gun himself, but he has confidence in the carload of heavily armed helpers who follow his Cadillac. Howser's Special Agent Cooper told Mickey's torpedoes to take in a ball game, or something. Mickey was in no position to argue...