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...talked football with every coach I've ever been around." But Butts insisted that he had never given Bryant any dope on Georgia football strategy; he had never given any coach any information before a game, he said. Burnett's notes, said Butts, were rife with error. To show why he would never have called the Georgia squad "well-disciplined," Coach Butts treated the jury to a chalk-talk explaining how lack of discipline cost Georgia at least three touchdowns as it lost to Alabama...
...South Pacific island of Bougainville, a Japanese bullet came within a couple of corpuscles of ending his life at 25. A Marine first lieutenant, Freeman was leading a combat patrol of about 30 men through thick, enemy-rife jungle. From behind a tree about 40 ft. away, a Japanese soldier shot Freeman in the jaw. The bullet ripped through his throat, passing between the jugular vein and the carotid artery. Doctors doubted whether Freeman would ever be able to talk normally again, but he went through a prolonged course of speech therapy and, being an exceedingly determined man, developed into...
...best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean countries, a mysterious, periodic fever, easily mistaken for hepatitis or mononucleosis. is not uncommon. PHS has allotted $107,000 to researchers headed by Dr. Harry Heller in Tel Aviv, where familial Mediterranean fever is rife. In the U.S.. where there is no comparable concentration of patients, such research would cost at least three or four times as much. Half a world away, Peruvian Indians have lived for centuries on low oxygen concentrations in the high Andes. To learn more about what this has done...
...Gilfond claimed to read poetry, but effected only a portentously conceived list of disconnected adjectives, adverbs, and nouns. Rife with classical allusions as dead as his images, Mr. Gilfond's verse offered exceedingly little of interest...
...False Hopes. Yet, as Kennedy discussed the problems confronting him, his visitors could sense in his words the calmness of a man who, after long and arduous deliberation, had made some vast and grave decisions-and intended to stick by them. Only a few weeks ago talk was rife in Western capitals of a "deal" with the Russians over Germany; last week that talk had all but vanished. Kennedy is determined to go to war over Berlin if necessary-and he so warned Russia's Andrei Gromyko during their October talk at the White House. Because he has decided...