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...Paulo Red Cross worker recently investigated the leprosaria, substantiated many of the chronic complaints, and caused the firing of leprosarium director Dr. Sales Gomes. Likely result of the new hubbub: the sacking of his successor, Dr. Nelson de Campos...
...melodrama alone does not spoil Deep Are the Roots. The play takes on too much and roves too widely. The sharp, immediate problem of the returning Ne gro soldier gradually becomes blurred by almost all the chronic interracial conflicts of the South, including the last one likely to prove dangerous, intermarriage...
...Chronic moaner Earl ("Red") Blaik, Army's coach, moaned: "We're woefully short on backfield material"-which was one way of saying that his line was tremendous. And it was true that he had only a dozen backs. But that might suffice, since two of the twelve, Felix ("Doc") Blanchard and Glenn Davis, form football's deadliest one-two punch of the century...
...Some users become habituals by depending on the drug to put them to sleep instead of reforming their unhealthy habits. They, and unstable people who deliberately take too much, occasionally develop chronic poisoning, resulting in drowsiness, bad memory, depression, confusion, stomach trouble...
...only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground as Sergeant Tomo Takashima, a returning war hero. He gets a job in a prison hospital, where he finds his nuclear scientist. By a streak of dazzling luck he also finds that the hospital...