Word: gain
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Leverett might gain back some points in the running half of the House track meet Friday. Their strong squad includes all four members of last year's winning half-mile relay team. But Eliot sprinters led by Mike Halleck should run well, and Leverett's winning margin will probably be small...
Leverett could gain as many as fifty points in the House golf tournament which ends today. No one scored very well in Tuesday's first round but Leverett's five man average of 87.4 gives hem the lead going into the final 18 holes. Eliot lagged far back in the field Tuesday...
...spite of the government's attacks and smears, NUSAS continues to gain the support of the English-speaking students. When the government last year banned integrated dances at the Cape Town campus, the students voted not to have any dances at all. The day after the banning was announced last week, 3000 students and professors marched through the streets of Johannesburg in protest...
...attract more students to family doctoring, the American College of General Practice hopes to restore the dignity of the general practitioner by making him a kind of specialist himself-a "generalist" is one term proposed. To gain accreditation from the college, a "generalist" would be required to take residency-internship training in family practice for three years, encouraged to work with outside doctors in family practice, and get added training in sociology and psychology. "Family doctoring is a more complex field than anyone gives it credit for, since it encompasses a whole range of intellectual, medical and nonmedical problems," insists...
What the Navy researchers found still more surprising was that the 10-to-30-cigarettes-a-day women had fewer incidents of the mysterious condition called "the toxemia of pregnancy." Early symptoms of this trouble are usually rising blood pressure, rapid weight gain and headache, followed by urinary difficulties and abdominal pain. This stage is "pre-eclampsia." The later stage of true eclampsia involves convulsions and threatens the lives of mother and child. Both the moderate and severe forms were less common among smoking than among nonsmoking mothers. Why? The Navy doctors went back to their delivery rooms without hazarding...