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...Cambridge's famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology began to wonder what had got into him. John, a good-looking, 18-year-old son of a hardworking Chicago court bailiff, came to M.I.T. with just about all the honors that Chicago's Lane Technical High School could heap on him: a place on the super-honor roll, divisional presidency of the student council, a cadet colonel's rank in R.O.T.C., and-finally-the American Legion's coveted high-school award for the class of '56. But for some reason John was falling far behind his M.I.T...
...early scenes, the camera roots like an indifferent hog through a heap of white trash in the Deep South. In a rotting mansion on the Mississippi flats, in an upstairs room filled with dolls and hobbyhorses and empty Coke bottles, a ripe-bodied young woman lies curled in a wrought-iron crib and sucks her thumb as she sleeps. This is Baby Doll Carson McCorkle ¶Carroll Baker), who "had a great deal of trouble with long division . . . and never got past the fourth grade." In the next room a balding, slack-jowled, middle-aged man, still dressed in frowsty...
Egypt (pop. 22,500,000). The vast ant heap of Soviet equipment received by Nasser surprised the Israelis, the English and French. Nasser believed that he could take Russian help without becoming a prisoner of the Communists, was obviously too cocksure. But signs persist that he is still nervous about becoming too dependent on the Russians...
...that teaches only graduate students, and while he hopes to stimulate the study of asronomy in high schools and colleges there, he will largely be giving up teaching. Not again will he come home with a batch of Astronomy 1 essays, toss them onto the floor in a heap and settle back with two or three cans of beer to read them. This system, of course, had its disadvantages for the student whose paper was being read when he ran out of beer, for Bok always advised brevity...
...surgeons cut them apart and remolded the ends. To keep them from growing together again, they slipped in a layer of tissue from Angelina's own thigh. Such a knee joint is flexible but not very stable. To make sure that Angelina would not fall in a heap when she tried to walk, the surgeons cut through the bone of the left knee, straightened it, then let it heal in the extended position. They used traction and casts on her hips, made new joints for her elbows. Angelina's muscles, atrophied from disuse, were strengthened by exercises...