Word: strickenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down at Soldiers Field this week it is not the opposing team that's disturbing the freshman football coaches, but a second, un-uniformed opponent: influenza. At yesterday's practice session, nine members of Coach Henry Lamar's freshman team were reported stricken with the virus, riddling the attendance roster with absent marks...
...Britain's embarrassed answer then was a task force of three warships and 700 troops to depose him. Last week, after the Northwestern University-educated dentist swept another election (TIME, Aug. 12), a wiser, gentler Britain tried a subtler answer-dumping the difficult problems of running the poverty-stricken little colony directly into Cheddi Jagan...
Chile's epidemic of Asian influenza last week raised its death toll to almost one for each thousand stricken. On one day alone, some 200 deaths were reported. Funeral homes sold out their coffins, and queues waited in cemeteries with their dead while laborers dug graves. Total deaths by week's end: 600. out of 700,000 cases-a bleak preview of what may happen in the U.S. when the disease arrives this fall (TIME...
Oldtime Pitchman. As it turned out, Marinotti's hard-driving leadership was more than enough for the job. Unlike other war-stricken Italian firms, Snia Viscosa never took a penny in American aid. Marinotti sold the company's skyscraper headquarters in Milan, converted other negotiable assets into cash, trimmed payrolls and expenses. Without going into debt or accepting government handouts, Snia Viscosa was producing 55,000 tons of fiber annually by 1947 (present production: 135,000 tons annually). But with productive capacity vastly greater than Italy's consumer market, Snia Viscosa had to export or topple...
...Presided at a White House lunch for Pakistan's Premier Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (see box), gave his guest two hard-to-get Air Force helicopters (paid for by foreign aid) to be used in rescue work in flood-stricken East Pakistan...