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...last time the cagers triumphed on the Tigers' home turf, nobody on the current Crimson squad had been born, Coach Frank McLaughlin was an elementary school pupil and Dwight Eisenhower sat in the Oval Office...
This past tall Dixon, still away from school gradually prepared his comeback. Harvard coach prank Haggerty says he tutored his pupil ever the phone while Dixon fan eight to 10 miles a day on his own on Tuesday Dixon returned to school Then came Saturday race...
...parochial audience gave him a loud, long ovation. His face flushed with excitement, his eyes gleaming, Levine came onstage slowly, basking in the bravos. Shyly bowing from the waist, his hands resting on his thighs, his head bobbing up and down in mute response, he seemed more the precocious pupil being celebrated by his schoolmates than the architect of an international musical triumph...
...practice his technique in the face of skepticism from their colleagues. The procedure takes only 15 minutes. First, the patient's eyes are anesthetized with eyedrops. Next, the cornea, the clear outermost portion of the eye, is marked with six to 16 lines radiating outward from the pupil, like spokes of a wheel. Finally, careful incisions are made along each line, altering the shape of the cornea and changing the spot at which light is focused inside the eye. In nearsightedness, light is focused in front of the retina instead of on it. An R/K corrects this condition...
...second attempt, "Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil"--which followed what is considered to be King's best novel. The Shining--proves even worse. Devoid of the usual terror, the story's potential is overwhelmed by a contrived situation and hackneyed plot. In "Apt Pupil," King relates the tale of an All-America-honor-roll-blonde-haired-blue-eyed-12-year-old corrupted in a relationship with an ex-Nazi war criminal. The imagery is suggestive, and the sense of an almost unholy irreverence--the juxtaposition of good and evil--is affective. But the application of his powerful in might...