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...Memphis, after being ordered by his teacher to swallow what he was chewing, Rangel Burks, 7, obliged, was taken to the hospital with a pencil stub in his stomach...
...country residence of Soviet Ambassador to Paris Sergei Vinogradov, he fed bread crumbs to the swans, even borrowed the scythe of a neighboring farmer and tried his hand at making hay. "Mr. Khrushchev has a fair cutting motion," reported the farmer, "but since he is a stout gentleman, his stomach interfered with his swing...
Suddenly from deep underneath the jagged Zagros mountain range came a 50-second, stomach-wrenching tremor. A toppling wall buried 70 girl students, killing 58. The dome of the bazaar collapsed like a circus tent after roustabouts removed the center poles. For a moment the stunned city was deathly still. Then the moans of the dying mingled with the wails of the survivors, who clawed with bare hands at the rubble, frantically searching for missing parents or children...
...Pulitzer prizewinner in 1954 for international reporting, Lucas arrived in Korea in March, just four days before the national elections. He spent two days in bed with an upset stomach, on election day went to Panmunjom to watch a routine armistice meeting. But Lucas nonetheless filed on the election. He found it "less violent than in the past," dismissed charges of widespread election frauds as the transparent alibi of the defeated South Korean Democratic Party, which he claimed had been aided in its deceit by "segments of the American press" (other U.S. correspondents in Korea, persuaded that the elections...
...meant was that the Government, once burned when hasty licensing of Salk vaccine producers was followed by the disastrous Cutter incident (TIME, May 9 1955 et seq.}, is now twice shy about licensing an oral vaccine. Main concern is that the weakened viruses sometimes revert, in the human stomach and intestines, to a form that is more likely to cause paralysis in test monkeys. Baylor University's Dr. Joseph L. Melnick settled a years-long argument with conclusive proof of this. But nobody knows whether the monkey test (involving direct injection into the brain or spinal fluid...