Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your cover story "Holiday on Skis" [Dec. 25]: I do not argue with doctors who deny that the ultraviolet rays encountered while skiing have an aphrodisiac effect. However, the sheer sensual experience of the warm sun, snow spray in the face, weightless microseconds on a mogul, the symphony of wind blowing through pine forests, thrills of speed, danger and precision and not insignificantly, the form-fitting nature of ski clothing create in this skier a desire for more than a quiet evening with a good book...
...fine job of reporting on the issues surrounding the review of the Afro-American Studies Department and the Harvard community is very much in his debt. He has also been more right than wrong in his projections of the course of the debate and in Saturday's Crimson (Dec 16th) he correctly suggests that I prefer the needed reforms in Afro-American Studies expressly stipulated in faculty legislation rather than leave such reforms to the machinations of the Faculty Council. I have several reasons for this preference...
...Dec. 13, the group made a desperate move. Two of them, Canessa and Fellow Medical Student Fernando Parrado, 22, would set out westward down the mountains in hopes of reaching civilization; it was decided that if in 15 days they had not been heard from, two more members would go to seek help. On the seventh day, however, using the plane's compass, Canessa and Parrado managed to reach the Azufre River and sighted a shepherd and his flock. It was five days before Christmas...
...Dec. 4, Truman was out of bed, ate well, seemed much better, and then, in his doctor's words, "just hit bottom." Graham had him admitted to Research Hospital.* Truman was conscious, his condition was rated "fair," and he was expected to recover. Only 26 hours after admission, his heart began racing at 140 beats per minute, his blood pressure dropped to 80 over 60 (120 over 80 is normal), and respiration was failing. To pull him through this "ultracritical" period, doctors placed an oxygen mask over his face, and gave antibiotics by intramuscular injection to help combat...
Died. James ("Little Jimmy") Patton, 39, gritty 185-lb. safetyman for the New York Giants (1955-67), who played in six championship games, five pro bowls, and was one of the best man-toman pass defenders in pro football; in an automobile accident on Dec. 22; in Villa Rica...