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...protesters should, if anything, be pleased with certain recent events. After all, Harvard has made progress on ethnic studies offerings. And the University's success over the last year in hiring several highly acclaimed scholars who happen to be minorities--including Princeton Professor Corneal R. West '74, one of nation's pre-eminent scholars of African-American studies--is nothing short of remarkable...
...fellow freshman Ashlin Halfnight couldn't fight his queasy stomach and Corneal all at once, and Ferrari was notified that he would be filling Halfnight's spot on defense alongside veteran Lou Body. It was only Ferrari's Fourth call-to-arms on the year, and by now he knows to jump at every chance...
Last week, under pressure from Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs conceded that exposure to mustard gas could indeed cause bronchial and lung disorders as well as chronic conjunctivitis and corneal opacities. Officials encouraged veterans involved in the experiments who suffer from such illnesses to contact the nearest regional office, after which the V.A. will belatedly do the right thing by offering them compensatory payments of up to $1,620 a month...
...Grand Junction, Colo. Two people suffered fever and nausea after taking Anacin in St. Albans, Vt. In Mills, Wyo., Brian Leyba, 25, suffered acid burns after using Sinex nasal spray, and in Grand Junction, Larry Tingley, 38, a patient at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, is being treated for corneal burns caused by hydrochloric acid in Visine eye drops...
...still newer and more controversial corneal operation was developed by Soviet Ophthalmologist Svyatoslav Fyodorov. In 1973 he examined a nearsighted 16-year-old youth whose glasses had been smashed in a fight. The shards had cut the cornea of one eye. Three days later the boy could see perfectly out of the eye-without glasses. The injury had inadvertently flattened the cornea...