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McLandress' unique contribution to science is the McLandress Coefficient, or McL-C (pronounced Mack-el-see), as it is known in professional circles. In plain language, a McL-C represents the average span of time for which an individual's thoughts remain centered on any subject other than himself. It is reached, according to its inventor, by "various depth perception techniques," including the frequency with which the subject invokes the first person singular in the course of an interview, a book, a speech or an article...
Bill Crain and John Ogden are also back in good form after being slowed by illnesses earlier this fall. Thus far, Crain has not been nearly the runner he was last year when he finished third in the Big Three Meet behind Hamlin and Yale's Bobby Mack. He was a strong third against Dartmouth, however, and might be able to rise to the occasion today as he did last year...
...five in 1940 to, for the first time, none in 1952. To be sure, white hoodlums still love to lob bombs at the homes of Negro leaders, but the last real lynch killing that the U.S. has known was that of Mississippi Negro Mack Charles Parker in 1959. Says the N.A.A.C.P.'s Wilkins: "We have completely changed the thinking of the country on lynching. At one time it was defended in the Senate, and even in the pulpit. There is no comparison now with the fear we once knew...
Died. John Franklin ("Home Run") Baker, 77, Hall of Fame slugger in baseball's era of the "dead ball," who as a third baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics in Connie Mack's famed "$100,000 infield" four times led the American League in homers (peak year: 1913, with twelve), retired in 1922 to his Maryland farm when his legs started to fail; of a stroke; in Trappe...
...days later, Dave Mack McGlathery, 27, a Negro employed at the U.S. space research center at Redstone Arsenal, went to the University of Alabama's Extension Center at Huntsville and registered for night classes in mathematics. Not a single hiss, boo or catcall was audible. Governor Wallace did not even bother to show...