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Meredith's press conference statement, as usual, was couched in the bitter, self-conscious terms of a crusader de scribed by Federal Judge John Minor Wisdom as "a man with a mission and a nervous stomach.'' Said Meredith: "After listening to all arguments, evaluations and positions and weighing all this against my personal possibilities and circumstances, I have concluded that the 'Negro' should not return to the University of Mississippi. The prospects for him are too unpromising." A white radio newsman from Jackson applauded. But Meredith kept on reading: "However, I have decided that...
...highest-paid athletes in Japan looks like a candidate for a Vic Tanny reducing course. He weighs in at 303 lbs., and his stomach is roughly the size and shape of a medicine ball. Yet Koki Naya, known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), makes upward of $50,000 a year for practicing his specialty, and when he appears, clad in a loincloth, his long hair bundled in a topknot, he sends shivers of delight through the bobby-sox set. At 22, Taiho is the youngest grand champion in the history of sumo wrestling, one of the world...
...school thought we had some kind of virus and gave us some medicine but it hasn't done any good. I can't imagine why we passed out like we did. We both seem to have the same thing-a tremendous headache, continuous dizziness, upset stomach and heaving up all day. If you have any idea what it is, please send something for it. I had better quit now. I'm so dizzy I can't even light...
...critics can find much fault in that building. But during construction, the frustrations - the arguments and compromises with engineers and client, the insufferable commuting between St. Louis and Detroit - proved overwhelming. In December of 1953, Yamasaki suddenly began bleeding internally; surgeons had to remove two-thirds of his ulcerated stomach. Death hovered so near that Yamasaki remembers overhearing his mother tell his three children that he would not pull through. Two months after the operation, Yamasaki got out of the hospital determined to put his life in better order. He closed the firm's St. Louis office and, with...
...Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, gum of diverse kinds, we offer this prayer to thee. There is grandeur in chewing gum. It is our marvelous pet, an important accessory of mankind in this modern age. Chewing gum sweetens the breath, imparts a pleasant feeling, strengthens the stomach and calms anger ... It invites happiness. It attracts smiles. An enjoyable and intellectual life is made possible because of gum chewing ... O Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, rest in peace...