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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Narcotics addiction is 100 times more common among physicians than the general population, reported Detroit's Dr. J. DeWitt Fox, after analyzing federal statistics. One doctor in every 100 is a present or possible future victim. Main reasons: emotional problems, pressure of work or pain, plus easy access to the drugs...
...heating and cooking, the hardware dealer, the tractor dealer, and the mechanic who serviced the farm vehicles refused to do business with Koinonia. The farm's gas tank was shot up, its roadside produce stand (with cold-storage and meat-processing equipment) was dynamited and destroyed. The main building on an adjoining farm owned by the community was burned to the ground, and later twelve shotgun blasts were fired into the farm, showering some of the Koinonia children with pellets. One Sunday a 78-car motorcade of 153 robed and hooded Klansmen drove into Americus just after church, held...
...main problem confronting the Crimson is one of depth, as it has been throughout the season. Jim Herscot, who has been out of action during the past week with an ankle injury, will return to the starting lineup, thus bolstering the varsity's defense, but Dick Pille and Dave Newhall are still unavailable...
...outcome of all this is the clear realization that Lewis has made few contributions in the positive sense, with the possible exceptions of "Tarr" and "The Apes of God," which may be reheard and remembered for their literary virtues alone. In the main, however, Wagner's study indicates that Lewis has been valuable chiefly through his constant attacks from the enemy position. Like the burr under the saddle, he has helped to hurry things along. Speaking of Vorticism, a movement initiated by Lewis, Wagner remarks, "It was a necessary interim. It 'hustled the cultural Britannia, stepping up that cautious pace...
Sinclair Weeks '14, Secretary of Commerce, last night defended the 1958 budget of the Eisenhower administration "in the main," while acknowledging that in some areas "we're probably spending too much money...