Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decision: Monopoly. Premier Segni's government last week decided to amend the outmoded laws, but in such a way as clearly to favor state monopoly. It was a major defeat for the oil companies, and a severe setback to the U.S. efforts to help stabilize Italy politically by helping it to stabilize itself economically...
Leading off the last half of the varsity season Saturday will be a Bucknell squad, an unknown factor around Boston except to Crimson scouts. After the Thundering Herd passes through, the Tigers from Princeton come to town to avenge the 14-9 setback the Crimson gave them last fall...
...fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there is Millionaire Kilk's man Friday, whose English is by way of Harry Lev as he invokes the Roosevelt "Nude Eel," makes an "important lung-distant call" and regards any setback for John Henry as "a terrible shot to th' boy's nerves cistern." Among them, this unlikely crew make Taurum Topic A all over the globe. The Moslem Brotherhood warns that "Israeli plotters [are] at the bottom of the whole thing," the Russians claim they invented the precious...
...their seats in Sicily's parliament from 30 to 37, giving their regional government, which in Sicily acts in coalition with the Monarchists, an absolute majority. For the Communists, who had been answering losses in northern Italy with the claim that they were gaining in the south, the setback was sharp. They not only failed to gain, but even dropped some 17,000 votes since the 1953 general election. The Communist-Socialist bloc, however, held its 30 seats because. Nenni's -fellow-traveling Socialists picked up 55,000 votes...
...Only Setback. For human subjects he chose Ohio's Chillicothe Federal Reformatory. Of 30 volunteers (between the ages of 21 and 30), 26 got a minute droplet of a single strain of polio virus in a teaspoon-ul of milk. The human guinea pigs proved even more susceptible than the chimpanzees to the desired kind of infection. They did not get sick in any apparent way Yet the virus multiplied in their digestive tracts, boosted their antibody levels and was excreted in the stools for one to twelve weeks. It was in this connection Dr. Sabin reported his only...