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...real battle will be between the Elis' captain Bill Clinton and the varsity's John Hammond for second place. Hammond is one of the best butterfly men in the country for 100 yards, and he is fast improving in the longer distance, but his 2:23.9 time must shrink considerably to beat Clinton's 2:19.0. Jim Stanley (2:30.6) or Bob Jaffe will be the other Crimson entry...
...very greatest care. This is apparently the best we can do at the present time." Underlying this reluctant admission by so hard-bitten a foe of big budgets was one of the really important facts of the 1950s: the Republicans who went to Washington four years ago, expecting to shrink Big Government drastically, now find themselves caught up in the New Republicanism that tacitly accepts Big Government as a necessity imposed by the political and social realities of life in the mid-century...
...Hell. The dreadful possibility remains, though, that one's wish for beatitude may be so weakened by self-indulgence that in the moment of death the soul may "shrink away from the presence of God." If this happens, "we shall have what we have willed to have. We shall have to live forever with the sinful self that we have chosen; and this is called Hell...
Adenoviruses and Coxsackie viruses (which cause a disease like nonparalytic polio) grown in cancer cells could, when injected directly into cervical cancers, cause the tumor to shrink and arrest the bleeding which troubled the patients. But they had no effect on the course of the disease: cancer cells on the edges of the tumor mass continued to proliferate and soon killed the patient. But when the researchers grew human-type cancers in rats, they found that successive generations of the virus developed an increasing ability to kill cancer cells. Next step: to test the selectively bred viruses in human subjects...
...with a bouncing sense of fun, and his Piano Concerto, which opens with an inferno of featureless percussion and sizzling .strings, continues with a slow movement of steamy mystery, and winds up with a recurring Latin American dance rhythm. Eeriest moments come when a flute seems to swell and shrink like a small-scale fire siren...