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With 15.9 percent unsatisfactories the freshman as usual, brought up the tall end of the grade ladder. Fourteen made group one, one more than in the previous year, and 25.7 percent were on the Deans' List (27.3 percent...
...Fourteen hours later came the third bulletin: During Wednesday night and the first half of today, Joseph Stalin's condition became worse. At 8 this morning, there developed signs of . . . a collapse . . . At 11:30, there was a second serious collapse...
...week, still convalescing, he prepared to open the season in Bogotá. Over breakfast with a few friends, he mused, "I once loved bullfighting like madness. Now I've lost the joy of fighting. That's when fatal things happen. Today I'll make twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand dollars-but it doesn't seem to matter...
Alfred's interest in poetry grew up alongside his religious education. While attending the Holy Innocents, he embarked on a fourteen page epic about Christ: "Since my experience was ended at twelve, I couldn't picture anyone older than twelve--so I had him commit suicide." Such is Alfred's marvelous compound of a serious scarch for answers in life and an equally acute eye for the comical. "I remember a bobby soxer walked into Briggs and Briggs one day and asked for Dylan Thomas' recording of all the useless Christmas presents he received." Alfred thrusts his upper teeth...
Gently, Colonel Nasser told the captain that he had been overworking, called a staff car for him and suggested a few days' rest. Last week Captain Sadek was confined to an obscure Nile village under police protection, and The Fourteen were now The Thirteen...