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...result, the organizing committee has ambitious plans for the affair, including a banquet at the Pi Eta club where awards will be presented by a celebrity to be named at a leter date. They also hope to produce tournament t-shirts and to circulate a newsletter ("The Galactic Flash") complete with a top-ten poll and scoring statistics...
Though interferon has raised the hopes of doctors and laymen alike since its discovery (in a 1960 Flash Gordon comic strip, medics used it to combat an extraterrestrial virus), it is so difficult to recover from cells that only minute quantities have been available for testing. Most interferon, including the supply that will be used in the new tests, comes from Finland, where it is extracted at great expense from white blood cells collected from Red Cross blood donors. As a result, as little as a millionth of an ounce of pure interferon costs close...
Take goalie co-captain Ellen Seidler. The Tacoma flash had no intention of playing field hockey. "My roommate freshman year was trying out for the team," sayd Seidler, "and I went along for the ride to see Coach Field. They were talking and I just blurted out, 'Maybe I should try out. I've used my feet in soccer, maybe I could play goal...
...Diego, Brown took his place at the head of a Columbus Day parade. With a red carnation nattily tucked in the lapel of a sober gray suit, he waved, shook hands and shouted, "How are ya?" or "Cómo estd?" Sitting in the reviewing stand, he showed a flash of anger when a reporter touched on one of those troubling matters of the gubernatorial style. He wanted to know if Brown had ever smoked marijuana. "I've answered that before," snapped the Governor, turning his head away. As the morning grew hotter, Brown doffed his jacket to give a brief...
...personality, arap Moi could not be more different from his flamboyant, autocratic predecessor. A teetotaling, shy and straitlaced man whose most salient characteristic is an occasional flash of quick temper, he has been described as having "about as much charisma as a dry maize cob." The son of poor farmers hi the Great Rift Valley, arap Moi had by 1946 become headmaster of a government school in Kabarnet. He was one of the first Africans in Kenya to enter politics, and one of the first to be appointed to the preindependence, British-dominated national Legislative Council...