Word: fulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subcommittee had reported that it could find no positive proof of actual aggression from Communist North Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 16), and Russia crowed that Laos' charges had collapsed "like a card castle." At this point, Hammarskjold quietly announced that he himself would fly to get "independent and full knowledge" of what was going on in Laos and though the Russians bluntly declared that Hammarskjold's trip would only "further complicate the situation," he went...
...heard of his plight and undertook to care for him. Her aim: major surgery, for permanent correction of Phillip's physical defects. For almost two years, no hospital would risk it because of court fights over Phillip's custody. But armed at last with full adoption papers affirmed by the state Supreme Court, Mrs. Culpepper took her adopted boy to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. There, during the summer, surgeons removed the nonfunctioning "left" kidney from Phillip Culpepper's right side...
...made the Class-B all-state team as a 200-lb. tackle for Farmington High School, Coach Art ("Pappy") Lewis of West Virginia University began dropping by to watch him play. "He was hunting all over the field for people to knock down even then," says Lewis. With a full scholarship to West Virginia, Huff majored in physical education (C plus grades) to get ready for a coaching career, dutifully plowed through such classes as Ballroom Dance, Fundamentals of Basketball, and Wrestling, got creditable B's in advanced biology and history courses. In his senior year in 1955, Huff...
...dreary Russia, Moscow University (enrollment: 27,000) is one of the few visible convincers that a primitive nation is out to conquer space. Among its 420 full professors, it boasts 33 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Famed for aerodynamics and mathematics, it relegates the humanities to the old university (founded in 1755) in downtown Moscow. Its real heart is the new (1953) Palace of Science, a vast complex of 37 buildings that sprawl atop the suburban Lenin Hills on the site of what-ten years ago-was a peasant village...
...hour and a half later, the two had bagged six ducks. Then Curtice sighted a low-flying flock, off to his left. He leveled on the lead duck and fired. At that instant. Anderson stood up, inexplicably lurched toward Curtice, and caught the full blast in his head.* "That's one of the things I can't understand," a haggard Harlow Curtice told a press conference the next day. "He may have stumbled. The ground was very uneven. I don't know why he didn't stay down...