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...Since the virus first appeared among Army recruits at Fort Dix last winter-one of whom died-there has not been a single confirmed additional case of swine flu. Either the infection is not very contagious, say the scoffers, or the Fort Dix flu cases were just a medical fluke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Flu Shots | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts of South Boston, Roxbury and suburban high mortgage, low-admission Dover...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts of South Boston, Roxbury and suburban high mortgage, low-admission Dover...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Not quite the same old song | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...migrant workers. Some 110,000 migrants, mostly Italians, went home last year. "To put it crudely, our unemployment is being felt in Italy," says Hans Mast, economic adviser to Credit Suisse, a big bank. Switzerland's strengthened trade position, in the view of government financial officials, is a fluke attributable to the recession. Exports fell 5.4% in 1975, but imports dropped 20%. In order to keep their markets, many exporters had to cut prices, thus reducing their profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Prosperous Recession | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Just to prove that his University high jump record of 7 ft. 2 in, set last week against Yale was no fluke, Mel Embree went out and duplicated the feat while competing in the 83rd Penn Relay Carnival held at Franklin Field in Philadelphia...

Author: By Stephen W. Parker, | Title: Embree Ties New Mark; McCulloh Third at Penn | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

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