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...defenseman Jeff Coolidge slammed a 30-foot drive off Taylor's pads Dave Bervey converted the rebound easily, and the Crimson had all the points it was to need. With 12 seconds to play in the frame. Captain Walt Greeley sprang Amory Hubbard loose on a picture maneuver. Taylor had no chance as Hubbard swept in all alone...
Within ten years, the treatment of muscle paralysis in polio was revolutionized. Kenny clinics sprang up across the U.S. and in other countries. In 1950, a grateful Congress voted to let Sister Kenny in & out of the U.S. at will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived...
...natural gas pipeline industry is a lusty, brawling infant whose two major operators, Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. and Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., sprang up from nothing within the past decade. For the last three years, these two quick-grown giants have fought each other for control of New England, the biggest untapped market. Last week, before the Federal Power Commission in Washington, their battle reached a crucial round...
...Russian, American and German weapons, including machine guns, grenades and knives. These elite "youths," said Zinn, were between 35 and 50 years old, all former German officers and some of them old Nazis and SS men. The U.S. bill: 50,000 marks($11,900) a month. Then Zinn sprang a real shocker. The Technical Service had prepared long lists of West German "unreliables" to be "put on ice" on Invasion Day. Only a handful were Communists; the rest were Socialists, including such prominent anti-Reds as West Germany's No. 1 Socialist Erich Ollenhauer, the mayors of Hamburg...
Here the Crimson sprang a tackle-around maneuver, with Bob Stargel carrying to the Washington 31, from whence the Crimson scored four plays later. After that, the game was never really in doubt...