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...have already clouded the picture for today's contest. Starting linkman Emmanuel Ekama, a vital man in the Harvard lineup, may have sustained a serious injury in practice Thursday when a teammate stepped on his heel. An immediate prognosis has not been made, but Ekama's ankle was sufficiently swollen Friday to present him from playing...
Thirty Years' War. That big "attrit" has proved incredibly long and costly. With its war-swollen cities, South Viet Nam now has the population distribution of a highly industrialized country-but there is almost no industry in Viet Nam. There are still artisans, out in what American soldiers call "Indian country," using their centuries-old skills to fashion land mines. Saigon has become an arsenal of U.S. consumer goods, from prefab houses to athlete's foot powder, ordered and sometimes resold by Saigon officials. Since U.S. personnel changes roughly every twelve months, Americans tend to maintain a kind...
Driving down interstate 81 through the green hills of eastern Pennsylvania one week after Hurricane Agnes swept over the countryside, the only indications that one is approaching the town most devastated by the storm are the few swollen streams along the highway and the bulletins broadcast continuously on WBRE, the Wilkes-Barre radio station...
Modern medicine has more potent weapons. Ergotamine tartrate, an ergot, or rye fungus derivative, constricts painfully swollen blood vessels and helps many migraine-and cluster-headache patients. Tranquilizers can also provide short-term relief of the tension that can trigger a severe headache. Psychological treatment to uncover emotional causes has worked for many people. But for some patients, nothing works very well. Taking what small solace they can from the fact that they are in famous company, they must do what headache sufferers have done for many centuries -learn to endure their ailment...
...offered Lola $250,000 if she would quietly go away; Lola threw the money in his emissary's face. Then Metternich organized a student riot, and Lola fell into his trap. Haughtily, she got Ludwig to close the university. The students rioted again, and now the riot was swollen by thousands of tradespeople who stood to lose the students' business. Barricades went up all over town; revolution was pending. "I will never abandon Lola!" the King shouted. "She is the most noble of creatures. My crown for Lola!" Persuaded at last that the mob would kill...