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...miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...
...efforts of Walton and Co. almost went for naught, though. Despite the fever pitch created by a wild crowd of 12,000 Oregonians hungry for their first pro sports title, Julius Erving (40 points) and George McGinnis (26 points) kept the Sixers in the game throughout, then nearly led them to a comeback victory...
...field: former Democratic Strategist Alan Baron claims 2,400 readers (most pay $39) for the Baron Report he launched last summer, and ex-Nixon Aide Kevin Phillips says he has nearly 1,000 subscribers to his $94-a-year American Political Report. Among the latest victims of newsletter fever are magazine and book publishers: U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek have launched newsletters in the past year, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich last year paid $1.4 million for a Boston group of seven letters, and CBS and Field Enterprises are pondering new entries...
...spent an entire summer doing medical research at some institute where they paid you per dozen rats you managed to infect with assorted communicable horrors, and said he actually enjoyed the stay at "cancer camp." (That story had something to do with it, of course. Pre-med fever ran as high in Prescott as in any other freshman dorm, and even the most casually ambitious protosurgeon could develop a hatred for someone who seemed more at home in a laboratory than the Bunsen burners.) More than that, though, it was Carlo's attitude: he couldn't stand the unsophisticated people...
Conclusion: spring dance fever exists in places other than New York...