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Ill lay: Selman Waksman, 75, Nobel-prizewinning antibiotics pioneer, in Montevideo's American Hospital after removal of a perforated appendix (despite fears of allergy caused by prolonged contact, doctors successfully used streptomycin, which he helped discover); General Lemuel Shepherd, 67, retired U.S. Marine Corps commandant, in Bethesda Naval Hospital...
Militancy brought clashes of fists, stones, clubs, guns. In Cambridge, Md., a brief truce between Negroes and whites quickly gave way to warfare, with bands of armed and angry men roving the streets (see following story). In Savannah, Ga., ignoring appeals for caution voiced by responsible leaders, Negroes broke into...
There were other tensions too. Charlene was in poor health recently. A few years ago, she suffered a painful leg injury while skiing in Vermont. At first she attended parties while swinging gaily between crutches. But the leg kept giving her trouble. Last year it buckled beneath her while she...
The trial runs were suspended for a day, while the icy run was narrowed for safety's sake. But the rebuilding job did not curb the mounting casualties. A French sled came to grief in the Hexenkessel and skidded down out of control; the brakeman was carted off with...
Friction leads to abrasion, contusion to concussion, laceration to impalement, dismemberment to disembowelment. We are witness to animals in an arena; and we watch the performance of picadors, banderilleros, and matadors, complete with a climactic, mortal moment-of-truth. The play is, in fact, perhaps best analyzed in terms of...