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...same time, a neighbor's son, 6, develops several large reddish rings on his skin. His temperature rises, and within days a swelling in the boy's left knee leaves him virtually immobilized. A short distance away, a robust man, 26, suddenly finds himself battling a nagging sore throat, a stiff neck and total fatigue. Before long, he feels excruciating aches in his shoulders, wrists, elbows, fingers and toes...
...particular sore point was Carter's original "hit list" of 32 water projects. The President compromised and restored 14 of the originally doomed projects. Then the House Public Works Appropriations Subcommittee restored 17 of the 18 projects still on Carter's list. (The lone loser: the $1 million Grove Lake, Kans., flood-control project.) Carter met three times with the subcommittee chairman, Alabama Congressman Tom Bevill, 56, with little result. The President then enlisted the aid of House Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., who was only able to persuade Bevill to cut small sums from...
...although they personally support the bill, they're afraid they might get killed in their district for supporting it." With the imminent redistricting that will pare the 240-member lower chamber down to 160 representatives, House legislators have never been so conscious of treading lightly on the sore spots of some constituents. The House is clearly the iceberg which might sink the measure...
...Hooks suffered a badly scraped shoulder, knee, and a cut on the hand. Now the good. Hooks then made tracks out of the infirmary, covered with antiseptic, and bolted to a first place finish in the 100- and 220- yard events. "I knew I wasn't going to be sore until tonight, and I just didn't feel like sitting around," Hooks said later...
RACIAL HUMOR has long represented a particularly sore point with Harvard's black community, and comic stereotypes of blacks become all the more painful when they appear in on-campus publications like the Lampoon. The board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (HRBSA) made its outrage clear last week when it asked both black and white undergraduates to sign a petition charging the Lampoon with "racial insensitivity" in recent issues. The cover of one magazine last spring, for instance, featured a drawing of a black shining the shoes of John Harvard's statue...