Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugged transfer student, Ed Cuff, who terrorized the House league last winter, will fill one of the forward posts. Formerly a student at Holy Cross, Cuff has served a term in the Army, where he picked up the rough, driving style of play that is his forte. Wilson has smoothed our Cuff's brawling methods, and he feels that the 6 ft., 3 in. junior will be the team's offensive mainstay. Cuff is particularly effective with his back to the basket...
...altitude pressure gloves, electrically heated flying gloves, glass-faced space helmet. At 3:30 a.m. he lay down on a tarpaulin on the desert floor and began breathing pure oxygen. In just five hours, red-haired Jet Pilot Joe Kittinger, father of two children, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his historic balloon ascension to 96,000 ft. 2½ years ago (TIME, June 17, 1957), was to jump toward the earth from the fringes of space in the longest parachute leap in history...
Something Done. After spending several weeks of detective work to trace the mysterious outbreak to its common source, the Moroccan government ap pealed to the International Red Cross for help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case...
...students. They work hard (law, language, economics), and live well in comfortable dormitory rooms, but a stiff weekly inspection by the dust-hunting "sanitary commission" is a reminder of where they are. They are graded on cleanliness, and their manners are supervised. The Americans have been warned never to cross their legs in public (Nekulturno...
That's the first prerequisite. The second involves not letting the name William Faulkner cross your mind during the show, for it will only evoke sympathy for Mr. Faulkner and antipathy for Jerry Wald, of Peyton Place fame, who lovingly identified Faulkner with his film, but who cunningly ripped up The Hamlet into many pieces, tossed them into the air, and caught mostly his own chaff...