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...fleets of Nelson, Rodney and De Grasse, are now impoverished and decaying. Overpopulated, underfed, off the direct pathways of world trade, they have been kept going in recent years mainly by meager doles from the mother countries and rising U.S. tourist trade. Seeking ways out of their luckless predicament, some have suggested switching allegiance to the U.S., a few have talked of lining up with nearby independent countries, and others, defying harsh economic realities, have demanded immediate independence...
...organisms in the brain. They were protozoa, to be sure, but what kind? Not until two years later (1939), when the two doctors had a similar ease and were able to transmit the baby's disease to laboratory mice, could they be sure what it was: toxoplasmosis. The luckless youngster on Eighth Avenue, her illness posthumously diagnosed, was the first case in U.S. medical history...
...hapless Giants and luckless Indians recently faced the realization that they are good second-place teams, while the top-running Dodgers and Yankees respectively headed toward their first and fourth straight pennant races. For the Bums, the excitement is all over until the World Series starts next Wednesday; the Yankees still can blow the pennant by losing their last four games, but chances are they'll gain a berth opposite Brooklyn sometime before this weekend...
...dwellers who propel the flying saucers might fall. Why couldn't they be the departed Jews and Protestants, in as much as, according to the teaching in some parochial schools, only Roman Catholics go to heaven? Or does he include Jews and Protestants in Class II, with the luckless infants doomed not to see the literal face...
Practically everybody is saving more money than over before--except the luckless student. Despite the fact that the national savings rate doubled in 1951 to reach an all-time high of nearly 21 billion dollars, local bankers reported yesterday that undergraduates were as spendthrift as ever...