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...killed it. Some 30,000 youths in regimental beads and headbands set out for Puerto Rico during Easter Holy Week for a bash thrown by the tireless festival promoter, Atlanta's Alex Cooley. For their $149 they got hopelessly inadequate transportation, a generally tepid show, exorbitant concession prices, scant drinking water, little emergency medical care, poor sanitary conditions and the tragedy of four deaths, one of them violent...
From there the Crimson moved to the Pan-American trials where the Harvard lightweights finished sixth against a field of heavyweights. The Crimson came in a scant 4 seconds behind Brown and 1.4 seconds behind Rutgers...
Despite Loeb's attacks, Muskie did expect help from Manchester, the state's largest city and a Democratic stronghold that accounted for 20% of the party's total vote last week. Muskie barely held his own, managing to eke past McGovern only by the scant margin of 511 votes. Nobody had to tell Muskie that breaking even in city wards is not the way a Democrat wins nominations, much less the presidency...
...Cain, the black widow who is poisonous and eats her mate, and I designate at the bottom of your program the grand finale of all soap operas: the mother of America's Cinderella." It is a mark of the wondrous sea change of public attitudes that in a scant three decades Wylie's castrating bitch has become, in much popular mythology if not in fact, part of the wretched of the earth...
...viewed almost as an extension of motherhood, supply has responded to demand and fully one-fifth of all pediatricians are women. Obstetrics and gynecology, the second specialty, is medicine's catch-22. The Engleman study and others show clearly that women prefer female obstetrician-gynecologists, but only a scant 6.8% of doctors in women's medicine are women...