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Ever since the halcyon days of Percy Houghton, Harvard men have anticipated the football season with all the spicy zest of an Italian soldier about to be sterilized by his dusky foes. Indeed, a football team which leaves its scalp, shirt, and reputation on Soldiers Field has become part of the fine old Harvard tradition. For years, the only brilliant thing about the team has been its golden pants...
...anatomical search for man's soul turned Swedenborg once more to supernatural intercourse. This time he had no doubt that the angels and spirits were real. They scattered sweet or disagreeable odors on his body, produced pain, heat, cold. One night some evil spirits got into his scalp, fled at dawn "with a slight hissing sound, like when some little distended vesicle is perforated." For the next 27 years Swedenborg made almost daily excursions through Heaven and Hell, heard the meaning of the Scriptures expounded by angels, spirits and the Lord Himself. All that he saw & heard he dutifully...
...paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved as Dr. Sheehan's hands pulled her scalp away from the underlying muscles. The hands pushed a blunt pair of scissors under the skin of the girl's cheek, from the upper incision to the hole at her lips. There was very little bleeding...
Next the hands caught up thin flat muscles from the scalp, swung them around and under the loose cheek skin, anchored them at the girl's lip. Quick stitches joined the open parts of the face. Before the operation, the patient had been unable to move a muscle of the left side of her face. Two weeks later, another picture showed, the girl could wink, smile, purse her lips...
After 14 months of waiting for Provisional President Carlos Mendieta to turn into Santa Claus, every amateur Robespierre in Cuba went out last week for Mendieta's political scalp. It was not that they wanted quick elections to set up a stable government. Most of them knew an election would call their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer...