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...built into the largest medical periodical in the world. He was brusquely ordered to stop forthwith all speeches on controversial topics, to give no interviews except on scientific subjects, to submit editorials on controversial subjects for approval. Most delegates understood that Dr. Fishbein was being used as a lightning rod to divert criticism from A.M.A. while his bosses continued to fight socialized medicine tooth & nail...
...safecrackers hung around for a week, can openers in their pockets, "carrying books and trying to look like graduate students." Finally, late one night they eluded the Yard Cop ("a frosty character who didn't even pack a rod"), jimmied open a cellar window, went in and blew the safe, escaping undetected with the loot--"some $100,000 worth...
...behind the winner, Stewart of Dartmouth, who was a member of this year's Olympic ski team. Bob Fisher came in seventh, Bob Wood, eleventh, Roger Wilson, fourteenth, and Vin Brandt, seventeenth. Crimson captain Graham Taylor came in ninth in 54.0, closely followed by Gordon Abbott, tenth. Captain elect Rod Nordblom was twelfth, Don Justus, thirteenth, and Laurie Grifflin fifteenth...
...secrets are hard to keep in Bonduel. The oldsters soon realized what was up, and campaigning began in earnest. Hot Rod made a speech: "Some of these Bonduel people must have been born old. All they do is sit on their fannies. Elect us and we'll do something." "These young fellows haven't got enough experience," replied John Froelich. John's wife added her two-cents' worth at the dinner table: "Lorenz, you quit this silly business. You're getting too big for your breeches...
Last week Bonduel's retired farmers and small merchants turned out in record numbers to pass judgment on Hot Rod's reform campaign, then ambled back to their beer and games of schmere and sheepshead. The count: 118 for John Froelich, 48 for Hot Rod. Said 51-year-old John as he began another term: "I guess I showed that young whippersnapper." Hot Rod's grandfather added: "I didn't vote for Hot Rod [but] he'll be all right after a while. He's like...