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...height of his fame, he went to Eldorado Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...
Magyars love to gamble. After Communist austerity shuttered Budapest's gambling joints, the boys in Szabadsag Ter (Liberty Square) offered outdoor odds of four to one against President Zoltan Til-dy's chances of surviving his precarious alliance with the Communists. Fourteen months ago, when he weathered the storm that whisked ex-Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile, 3,000,000 forints (about $250,000) in bets changed hands. The boys on Szabadsag Ter should have waited...
...forces helped stem the last great German offensive at Cháteau-Thierry. Three months later-under orders not to dig holes-they took the offensive at Saint-Mihiel, won back a salient the Germans had held since 1914. Fourteen days after that, the U.S. First Army attacked on the Meuse-Argonne line, broke through the enemy trench systems, routed their way through the weary defenders. Pershing advocated driving on to Berlin. But his wish was thwarted by the Armistice...
...Bureau attempts to settle most cases out of court, however, and of the 809 handled last year, 319 of them for Harvard students, only 16 had to go to court. Fourteen of these eases were...
...Medical witnesses at the legislature have repeatedly emphasized that general anesthesia is always employed in animal operations Furthermore, clerical views from all major denominations have contended that no theological tenets oppose regulated vivisection Perhaps the waiting period in the pound for captured canines should be extended from seven to fourteen days, and certainly irresponsible personal experiments should be restricted to discourage such dog torturing as occured in a recent Stanford University fraternity initiation. But the real, basic issue is clear-cut. In New Jersey, where vivisection is outlawed, there are no medical schools. The life of 5000 dogs a year...