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...Even as recently as two years ago, Lightweight Champion Ike Williams was respected for his shifty style, if not for his fighting heart. But when Williams lost his title last year to a Harlem unknown named Jimmy Carter, lightweight prestige slumped. Last week Champion Carter, 28 and still a colorless jabber, put his low-rated title on the line for the third time...
After a somewhat colorless cantata by Buxtchude, the audience found itself four centuries after Machaut and finally on more familiar ground with Bach's cantata No. 32, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen. The performance, featuring two excellent soloists, Jean Lunn, soprano, and Vincent Allison, baritone, was smooth and often moving. Violinist Helena Pappenheimer and oboeist Robert Freeman also deserve special commendation for their rendition of the instrumental obbligatos...
...result is a picture of the specimen that is in full color, while to the ordinary microscope, human tissue is completely colorless. Amazing things have been seen with the new instrument. Cancerous cells, which have heretofore in many cases been impossible to distinguish from healthy tissue, have been seen on the screen as flaming red inflammations on the green background of normal tissue. These colors are produced by chemical reactions within the cells...
...shipping executive heard the bad news from his doctors: he had chronic lymphatic leukemia. X-ray treatment might have slowed down the disease enough to give the patient ten or even 20 years of useful life, but doctors have done the job more easily with an occasional injection of colorless fluid containing phosphorus...
...couple of days in office, and Earl would step back in. But he couldn't put that over, either, so he settled for a more commonplace plan. He picked the man he wanted for governor, and threw the Long machine into high gear behind him. His candidate: colorless Judge Carlos G. Spaht (rhymes with late) of Baton Rouge...