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Kevin Sigler has inherited the quarterback position for the Cornellians from rubber-armed Mark Allen (52 passes against Harvard last year), and has hit on 22 of his first 34 attempts of the year...
...beryllium disease among workers who handle that high-strength, lightweight metal. They not only develop respiratory symptoms similar to asbestosis but suffer from heart and liver damage that produces a 30% mortality rate. She deals with lung damage from such new chemicals as tolylene diisocyanate, widely used in foam rubber products; nerve diseases caused by various new solvents used in the printing industry; damage to nerves and organs from carbon disulfide among workers in rayon textile plants. Muscle and Blood also explores continuing safety hazards in the mining and automobile industries, as well as the psychological stresses in automated assembly...
...every proposal for clandestine activity. Chaired by Kissinger, the committee is made up of Colby, Deputy Secretary of State Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of Defense William P. Clements Jr., and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General George S. Brown. In his book, Marchetti describes the committee as a rubber stamp that is predisposed to give the CIA what it wants. But others say that the committee frequently rejects or orders revision of CIA proposals. Moreover, recommendations for major covert actions like the Chile operation require presidential approval...
...which had a projected enrollment of 1,539 (797 black), a jeering, mostly teen-aged crowd of whites threw stones and bottles at two yellow buses that carried the 56 black students who showed up for opening day. As school was dismissed that afternoon, the whites brandished lengths of rubber hose and clubs and again threw bottles at the buses. Nine black students and a bus monitor were slightly injured by shattering glass. At the 79 other schools that were desegregated, there was no violence...
...areas rather than simple nature preserves was humane and revolutionary. At the time most people were justifiably delighted. As he pressed on, Moses did have a few prescient critics who clearly foresaw that his highways would encourage more cars and ruin public transport as people shifted from rail to rubber. Moses scorned them of course. Visions of cloverleafs danced in his head. He was, moreover, increasingly isolated by arrogance, power and growing deafness...