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Realizing that their united front was disintegrating, and faced with spreading scarlet fever and other outbreaks among Belgian children, the strike leaders agreed to negotiate. But after 14 hours of wrangling, the talks broke down. The strikers tried an ultimatum; they even threatened to stop emergency hospital service. That was it. The government angrily announced that it would start drafting physicians. Once in uniform, the doctors would work when and where they were told to. Said Premier Theo Lefevre: "We will take all measures necessary to prevent the situation from worsening still more...
...apples would fall on tiers of scarlet leaves...
...Crimson swordsmen trounced Rutgers 16-11, turning yesterday into a black day for the Scarlet Knights...
...Rutgers Scarlet Knights should provide the Crimson swordsmen with a challenging match in the I.A.M. at 2 p.m. today. A new coach took over a mediocre group of Knights two years ago, and has practically turned them into candidates for the Round Table. Rutgers is particularly strong in the epee--Harvard's current weakness...
...have a semicircular hole cut in the table to accommodate him at meals. "A fool," the doctor used to say to Anna, "is a man who never tried an experiment." Erasmus tried them all the time, and occasionally they worked. He prescribed electric shock for jaundice and scarlet fever, purges for the gout, blood transfusions for cases of consumption. His "Commonplace Book" is full of case histories of experiments that failed: a dropsical woman who apparently vomited and died after receiving four doses of "decoction of foxglove"; his own infant daughter who died after Erasmus tried to inoculate her against...