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...Dwight Eisenhower was on the ticket, and anti-Trumanism was at fever pitch in Virginia. Republican Joel Broyhill won then by 322 votes in his Washington suburban district; this time he won by 4,500. Republican Richard Poff won his Lynchburg-Roanoke district by 2,000 in 1952; this year his margin was 13,000. Republican William Wampler won his Bristol district by 2,300 in 1952; this time he lost by 1,000 in the face of an all-out effort by the powerful Byrd organization. Even in Richmond, a relatively weak G.O.P. candidate came within 5,000 votes...
Rabbi Benjamin Schultz of New York spoke first, prefacing his remarks by commenting, "I got so excited about coming here that I got a fever, so I have a cold and can't talk so well. But you people aren't cold at all, so I don't have anything to worry about...
When he feels he has "really" played music, Brubeck seems almost in a kind of trance. It happened at a recent recording session. Dave finished in a fever, grabbed a handkerchief, wiped his face and ran to the wall as if he wanted to burst through it. Paul laughed aloud, followed him and spun him around. Brubeck was laughing, too, great yelps of laughter. He threw his arms into the air, drunk with music. A photographer who happened to be there was caught up in the excitement. "You're hot," he yelled...
...young," glowed the 19-year-old Dalai Lama in Peking last week. The truth was, however, that Nehru looked bad. For several weeks he had suffered acute insomnia; he had flown to Red China, against doctor's orders, with laryngitis and a fever. Along the way, Nehru had acted in high-strung fashion: at Calcutta he kicked aside a jobless young refugee who prostrated himself before Nehru ("He is holding my foot"); at Rangoon he wielded his wooden cane at a welcoming crowd which he thought was drawing too near. When the Nehru party finally got to Peking...
...been a professor and head of the Department of Microbiology since 1946. A native of Salt Lake City and graduate of Stanford, he has studied typhus and related diseases extensively. During World War II he worked as a member of the United States Typhus Commission to control epidermic typhus fever in the Middle East and Italy. His laboratory research led to the discovery of the first chemotherapeutic agent which was effective in curing typhus and other rickettsial diseases...