Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sparked by the line play of Larry Ekpebu and John Hedreen, the Crimson offense was only slightly less than sensational last Saturday at Amherst. The team scored once, and rightfully should have tallied at least two more goals, against one of the strongest defenses in the East. The line got clear for an unusual number of shots, and only Amherst's good fortune prevented its defeat. "All we need now is a change of luck," Munro said...
...self-conscious contemporary convention that seldom allows so much as a smile with a racial or religious twist. Although the word is taboo, the poor exploited slob who ghosted Sammy's screenplays is still a nebbish; every now and then, Blyden's voice echoes with accurate Lower East Side accents...
...premise that more fighting men have been felled by disease than by broadsword or bomb. Its primary mission is to secure medical knowledge of potential military significance. In the process, it helps protect and improve the health of peoples wherever U.S. troops are stationed in the Far East. Roaming free Asia in everything from jeeps to light planes, Namru's field teams (average strength: twelve men) have collected mosquitoes from traps in dunghills, snails from paddyfields, snakes from underbrush, argued Chinese followers of Confucius out of their scruples about giving blood samples, braved a batch of contagious epidemics...
Dramatic Success. Namru-2 scored one of its most striking successes in fighting cholera outbreaks in East Pakistan and Thailand. Drugs are of little value against the disease, which kills mainly by causing a tremendous loss of body fluids; in the acute diarrhea stage, as much as four gallons may be lost in a single day. Measuring the victim's need for fluids and body salts usually requires costly and complex electronic gadgets, but Namru-2 medics adapted an inexpensive Rockefeller Institute technique, found that they could learn what they needed by putting a few drops of blood into...
Married. Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, British atomic spy who was released from prison three months ago, flew to East Germany, where he was rewarded with a job as deputy director of the East German Central Institute for Atomic Physics; and Greta Keilson, 53, widow; he for the first time; in East Berlin...