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...Chicago-born physician and radiation expert who generated X rays soon after Roentgen did in 1895, became the world's first known victim of radiation as it progressively caused cancer in his hands and left forearm, most of his nose, upper lip and jaw; of pneumonia (an indirect result of his cancer); in Chicago, after a lifetime of 93 operations...
...Kenya's new Legislative Council as the colony moved on to independence? Since the blacks and whites of Kenya could not agree among themselves, Britain's astute new Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod, offered a plan of his own. It called for an intricate set of direct and indirect elections, under which 37 seats out of 65 in the new Legislative Council would be held by Africans. Twenty seats would be reserved to Europeans (10), Asians (8) and Arabs (2), but voted on by the entire electorate. This, in diluted form, met many of the original demands...
...West German millionaires but couldn't keep her mouth shut, and so one night was strangled with a pair of her own nylons (TIME, Sept. 29, 1958). The movie takes the sordid case as an occasion for social satire, as a chance to say, often in a deftly indirect and wickedly amusing way, that the "economic miracle" is a moral disaster...
...play seemed to be a sort of indirect, 1960 temperance lecture linking the arms of Carry Nation and Sigmund Freud, 41-year-old Arthur William Matthew Carney was a good man to give it. An ex-alcoholic, he has solved the problem himself...
...textbook piece on the ancient art of recruiting. In the modest Dunn home, the phone jangled steadily with long-distance calls placed by nearly every major-college coach in the South, from Alabama's Paul Bryant to Arkansas' Frank Broyles. From Dartmouth came a circumspect and indirect inquiry. Notre Dame forwarded plane tickets to the Southern California game (Perry Lee mailed them right back: "I don't much like cold weather"), and victory-starved Mississippi State sent a plaintive note ("We all hope and pray that you will come with...