Word: gangly
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Hustling into Manhattan to accept the Heisman Trophy, Ernie Davis, 22, the first Negro ever to be chosen as football's ''outstanding college player," got his hand shaken by President Kennedy, was gang-tackled by emissaries of a Canadian pro team and both U.S. professional leagues, each of which has made him its top draft choice. By opting for the National Football League, the thumping Syracuse University halfback could probably share with Michigan State's Ron Hatcher the distinction of being the first of their race to play for the Washington Redskins. But for Ernie this...
...Well, gang, it's the joyous Christmas season again (has been since the day after Halloween, according to the Coop) and you know what that means! Lotsa business for everybody...
...Joseph Musumeci, Larry ("Big Lollypop") Carna, Joseph ("Little Lollypop") Carna and Frank ("Punchy") Illiano. The cops made the arrests-the technical charge was consorting with criminals, that is, each other-after word got around that the Gallo mob was about to declare a shooting war on a rival Brooklyn gang headed by an olive oil distributor named Joseph Profaci, who stands high enough in the underworld to have attended the convention of hoods in Apalachin, N.Y., in 1957. True to their leader's image, the Gallo mobsters laughed off their arrests...
Guess what, gang There will be no CRIMSON tomorrow. But dry those tears and eat lots of turkey, because the CRIMSON will resume publication Friday...
...virological research are vaccines, and vaccines depend on the basic concept of viral structure as a nucleic-acid core with a protein overcoat. The coat is a foreign substance to the body it invades, and in the higher animals, including man, the system fights back by making antibodies that gang up on a virus particle, surround it and neutralize it. Unhappily, it takes days or weeks for the body to mobilize its antibody police, so the first viral invasion is likely to succeed and make the invaded victim sick, or may even kill him. But if the body survives such...