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Captain Dexter Lewis led the varsity with four goals and two assists, while Deke Smith and Johnny Lane tallied twice each. Sophomore Dick Mackinnon looked good in the crease, letting in only three markers for three periods. Tech scored twice late in the final stanza and the lanky goalie hastily reentered to finish the contest...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Lacrosse Squad Defeats M.I.T., 10-5 | 5/3/1956 | See Source »

Since women began, they have complained that they felt bloated and out of sorts in the last few days before menstruation. Physicians usually treat the problem lightly ("Mostly in the mind," many have said); not so London Drs. Iain and Pamela MacKinnon, a husband and wife team. They were impressed by recent trickles of medical evidence that women in the latter part of the menstrual cycle not only have cellular changes but are more prone at that period to commit crimes of violence and experience emotional instability. They checked 47 coroners' cases, and post-mortem examinations made it possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trouble Time | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Kenya Crown Colony, ablaze with Mau Mau revolt, is the northernmost bastion of Britain's East African Empire. Should Suez fall to Egyptian nationalism (see below}, the huge British base at Mackinnon Road, 225 miles southeast of Nairobi, supported by its jet airfields, would almost certainly become the key to British strategy in the western Indian Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Mow Them Down | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

...audience had been waiting thirty minutes for this spiel but there was only one sign of restlessness. Under a placard reading "How to STOP Worrying," a tall youth chewed hungrily on both his hands. MacKinnon's talk consisted of "humorous" little stories to warm up the crowd and illustrate the "handling" of people. One of these anecdotes concerned some preposterous lie about food packaging that MacKinnon had told his first grocery store customer; another showed how a father had convinced his on to kill a beloved net turtle by applying one of the rules taught by the course. Audience response...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Confidence Men | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

...lecturer concluded his talk by pointing to five dilapidated chairs lined up on the stage. According to MacKinnon four of these chairs were occupied by Demosthenes. Milton, Beethoven, and Franklin Roosevelt--the fifth could be ours if we would give in and take the $96 course. Then he introduced thirteen recent Dale Carnagie Graduates, fit company for the great men of history. Each grad delivered a two minute speech on what the course had done...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Confidence Men | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

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