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With 63 cases piling up, the Ardmore hospital was crowded, and the overflow was sent to Sheppard A.F.B. in Texas. At both hospitals and at laboratories across the country, tests were made on all kinds of specimens submitted by the doctors. All were bafflingly negative. After an average of a month in the hospital, most of the airmen were rated well enough to return to quarters. But before the last were out, many of the first cases were back in the hospital. The second time round, their aches and pains and liver enlargement were worse. Many were kept...
...many men, energy and enthusiasm are defects, for they overflow in all directions at once, and succeed in accomplishing nothing. But one of Roosevelt's greatest assets was his remarkable power of concentration. President Eliot recalls that "the intellectual power which most attracted the attention of his companions and teachers was an extraordinary capacity for concentrating every faculty on the work at hand, whether it were reading, writing, listening, or boxing. Thus he would read by himself in a room half-filled with noisy students without having his attention distracted even for an instant; indeed, he would make no answer...
...contrast to the thousands tumbling into the Nixon-Forbes rallies last week, Meyner was drawing poor crowds. In Jersey City advance Democratic scouts hastily combined five meetings into one in a hall seating 75, then produced an overflow audience. Nonetheless, the polls were showing Meyner a winner: a Princeton Research Service straw vote gave him 49% of the vote, Forbes 43%, with the remainder undecided. In Newark, bookies changed their odds' on a Meyner victory from...
Kennedy made the remarks in an informal meeting with Wellesley students and their guests after he had delivered a prepared speech to an overflow crowd of some 1,300 in Wellesley's Alumnae Hall...
...Accept the Challenge." Landing in Jackson, Kennedy read the local papers−and in them, a challenge from Mississippi Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr. for him to state his views on integration and segregation. While he kept an overflow reception crowd waiting in the Roof Room of the Heidelberg Hotel, Jack Kennedy hid out in his room, lolling in a warm bath while he thought through a revised version of his speech...