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Grant swept right end from the 15, and was embraced by Cornell's Mike Strick on the five. Paying little heed to the impediment, Grant literally carried Strick into the end zone with him. John Hartranft's kick tied the score with two minutes gone in the second quarter...
This was a highly selective policy, concentrating on Negro voting rights. The brothers reasoned that once Negroes can cast their fair share of votes in state and local elections in the South, white politicians will be compelled to heed the Negroes' demands. "The most significant civil rights problem," Bobby kept saying, "is voting...
...backyards and on beaches, wherever the sun shines brightly, multitudes of people have begun to stretch out like so many sausages on a griddle-all for the sake of a handsome, "healthy" tan. This rite of summer is warming, relaxing and so socially desirable that few sun worshipers heed the constant words of caution from doctors. Despite its appearance of health, a suntan apparently has little physical value; too much sun over a long period of time may permanently damage the skin...
Courtlandt Gross, chairman, Lock heed Aircraft Corp...
...deeply ravined semijungle of Hawaii's Koolau Mountains, some 4,500 G.I.s recently pretended that they had been asked to help a Southeast Asian nation beat back insurgents and bolster a friendly government. The training involved as much diplomacy as fighting, required the soldiers to heed imagined local customs, such as the fact that "it is forbidden to cut the hair on Wednesday or to wash the hair on Thursday" (baldheaded soldiers were warned that by some native superstition, they would be considered ''bearers of pestilence and plague"). Then G.I.s taught the "natives...