Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That's the sort of tabula rasa author-director Don Owen has constructed. His ill-concealed secret is that he himself hasn't the foggiest what poor Peter needs. Nor have any of his actors. More discipline? More freedom? Less pressure? More responsibility? Love and approbation? A swift kick in the rear...
Thus, the danger was cited-but the remedy remained a "Meeting of Consultation." OAS meetings have never in the past been known for swift or decisive action. In more than six years of blatant Castro subversion-by-export, the OAS has had scores of meetings' managed at most to suspend trade with Cuba except for food and medicine, and bar diplomatic relations with Havana (Mexico has ignored the latter...
...little excitement, Coach Jack Barnaby tried a few variations in the doubles. Sophomores Dick Appleby and Brian Davis downed Gallinato and Swift by the baffling score...
Dave Benjamin had a little more trouble of number two, but edged persistent Craig Flager, 6-4, 9-7. Harvard swept the rest of the matches with relative ease: Live Kileff (three) blitzed Mark Green, 6-1, 6-2: Captain Dean Peckham (four) momentarily lost concentration against Bill Swift, and then bashed him in three sets, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; merciless Richie Friedman (five) wiped Joe Friedman, 6-2, 6-1: Terry Robinson (six) downed John Nerenberg...
...first case of surfer's knobs seen by Dr. Sheldon Swift at the Permanente Medical Group in Panorama City made a deep impression; the British-born dermatologist had never seen anything like them around the muddy Mersey, where he went to medical school. Dr. Swift reported in the A.M.A. Journal that the knobs were benign tumors, made up mainly of an overgrowth of the horny layer of the skin. They were not to be confused with the socially less acceptable housemaid's knee, which is a bursitis. Dr. Swift saw no reason for surgical removal of the knobs...