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Though the meet outcome had already been decided, "interest was still at fever heat. There seemed to be a tenseness in the hot atmosphere that forecast an impending performance of great moment." The 1000 spectators "seemed to sense that Gourdin was about to make history-that he was about to hurl his body to a record...
...suggestion will no doubt stir rage in both Washington and Havana. But it is a sad and telling commentary that Cuba has rarely been so honestly run as during the brief U.S. occupation (1899 to 1902) under General Leonard Wood, who helped eradicate yellow fever and set up an ambitious, though thoroughly inappropriate public school system modeled on Ohio's. Thereafter, a succession of charming thieves and defective democrats occupied the presidential palace. The most candid was Alfredo Zayas (1921-25). Upon passage of a multimillion-dollar harbor bill, he announced that he had "300,000 good reasons...
...When Martin Luther King. Jr., came up to speak, the quarter million were at a fever pitch...
...Health Association said that it knew of cases of hepatitis and salmonella diarrhea, and suspected the possibility of scarlet fever...
...shingles and chicken pox. But it still falls short of cure for man's most common ailment, for, as Gordon points out, "there is no such thing as the common cold." More than 20 different viruses are known to produce the upper-respiratory-tract infections that lead to fever and sniffles. Isoprinosine, though apparently effective against some more serious viruses, remains to be tested against those that cause colds...