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...Volunteers have been paced by the torrid shooting of freshman Bernie King--who burned the twine for 42 points in the 30 minutes of action he saw in his varsity debut...
...sixty-seven, it is conceivable that Rauff might find the pace of work at DINA a little torrid, even by his previous standards. Under a policy of systematic repression and intimidation mass arrests have taken place in villages throughout Chile during recent months. According to a report of the International Commission of Jurists, the number of people arrested in these actions may be anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000. This is the second stage of organized terror by the junta and DINA. In the first stage, mass executions were the mode of repression. Perhaps as many...
...torrid affair. It is certainly not characterized by unquestioning loyalty on the part of the student body as a whole toward the squads that represent it in intercollegiate play. Harvard does not live or die by the outcome of the battles between its chosen forces and those of an opposing college...
...able to prove the claimed ages of the centenarians or satisfactorily explain longevity among such widely dispersed peoples, says Medvedev. He methodically ticks off each suggested cause. It is not mountain air, because many of the oldsters live at sea level. Nor is it temperature, because some live in torrid and others in frigid zones. Diet varies radically. Some of the people studied subsist on what heart specialists would consider healthful fare while others consume great quantities of fats and wine...
...Board of Economists met last week to assess the state of the U.S. economy "dismal" was about the only word to describe their forecasts. In perhaps their gloomiest session ever, the economists predicted a continuation throughout the year of all the nation's present economic woes: torrid inflation, skyscraping interest rates, sluggish growth, stubborn unemployment, a deepening trade deficit. Worse, they foresaw a new and frightening threat: the possibility of a financial crisis from which some savings and loan associations might have to be rescued by the Federal Government...