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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committeewoman Mrs. T. K. Kendrick. In trying to persuade the Democratic National Committee to veto the site-selection committee's choice of Los Angeles for the 1960 Democratic convention, they argued that 1) Los Angeles is expensively far away for most delegates, 2) the Pacific time zone would mean poorly programed telecasting to eastern audiences, 3) Los Angeles smog is too thick...
House Republican Leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana emphasized that this did not mean a firmness which barred a negotiated settlement...
...Believe me, we mean every word of it," exclaimed W. Scott Blanchard '59, of Kirkland House and Cedarhurst, L.I. There was no indication that Miss Woodward doubted his sincerity...
...quickly aparent, however, that such ratings would mean little in the match, and on the strength of some spectacular scrambling and occasionally brilliant shotmaking Emmet left the court with a 2-1 lead after the third game...
...artificial kidney is for crisis situations when hours mean the difference between life and death. The human body cannot survive unless at least one kidney is doing its job of filtering the body's waste products from the blood so that they can be voided in the urine. A variety of things can cause an abrupt kidney shutdown: shock with heavy blood loss (after surgery or an accident), some severe infections, mismatched transfusions, and many poisons. Of these, carbon tetrachloride attacks the kidneys directly; most are general poisons (often, overdoses of common drugs such as barbiturates and even aspirin...