Word: mix-up
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...polio row in his Department of Health. Education and Welfare, President Eisenhower had picked Nelson Rockefeller. Under Secretary in the Department and a presidential troubleshooter, Rockefeller drafted a formal progress report on the vaccine situation, which Ike released last week. Full of the obvious lessons from the vaccine mix-up ("From the delay science has gained new knowledge, new safeguards"), the report carried one bit of near-news: enough vaccine to complete the two free shots for the first-and second-graders, run by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, "should be released within 60 days." That would mean that...
...until the third period, the Rineharts exploded, as Tom Walsh of Kirkland scored at 4.55 on a pass from House-mate Walt Gannon. Later, with less than two minutes left in the game, Ed Carey of Leverett pushed the puck by Wintergreen goalie Paul Jameson of Adams in a mix-up in front of the goal to tie up the game...
Involved in the mix-up are a possessive mother, Yvonne, who in true Freudian fashion does not want her 22-year-old son to marry; her sister Claire, who has always been in loves with George, Yvonne's husband; George and Yvonne; and a young woman named Madeleine, whom Michael wants to marry but who, it turns out, has also been loved by Michael's father, George. Now such a situation would, without doubt, wreak confusion in even the most rational of families. When you consider, then, that at least two of Cocteau's characters are not only irrational...
Brown tied the Crimson at 11:46 of the opening period as Tommy "Sipper" Thompson poked the puck past a mix-up in front of the varsity goal. After the lone tally, however, the Bruins consistently failed to capitalize on solo breaks by linemen Pete Tutless and Dan Keefe as hasty passes in the varsity zone could not find receivers...
Contacted in New Haven, the student involved pointedly denied that he had broken the Ivy Code ruling, and expressed hope that he might soon regain eligible status after the "mix-up" had been straightened...