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There was frank animal hatred in the obsidian eyes. The harried champion felt it. He shuddered involuntarily and looked away. On his chest, rivulets of sweat sparkled in the harsh glare of naked lights. Patiently, coldly, the massive-shouldered challenger stalked his prey, drawing his circles tighter and tighter, until the champion was trapped against the ropes. A thudding left to the belly doubled up the champion. Another left to the head made him drop his gloves. The challenger swung his right...
Before a generally sympathetic audience, Congressman Wilson indicated that if this country turns socialist, we are affect weakening ourselves until we are a prey of International Communism." Practicing a policy of "positive opposition," he maintained that "President Kennedy has introduced a lot of legislation that he has no intention of pushing." Wilson included Kennedy's civil rights program and the proposed appointment of Robert C. Weaver as a Negro to the Cabinet among these "patently political" maneuvers...
Yale fell easy prey to the team's powerhouse in the upper rungs, but Princeton proved to be the toughest meet of the season. Every match went the full five games and was ultimately won by slim margins in the last games. Nevertheless, the squad emerged on top of a 7-2 match score...
...basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical and mental retardation and blindness. The answer is to cut out milk, or anything containing the galactose molecule...
...velvet darkness the posse of 16 white men crouched noiselessly at the jungle's edge. Just beyond, in a clearing, glowed the campfires of their prey: a tiny band of Brazilian Indians whose men had clubbed to death, in a reprisal raid, a white rubber tapper who had killed one of their tribe. When the campfires ebbed and the Indians had settled into sleep, the posse struck-with shotguns, machetes and vicious dogs. No one was spared. In a few minutes, 22 men, 18 women and 12 children lay dead. The posse cut off three heads as trophies...