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...absorb most of the manpower slash. All three service chiefs, the story went on, are in revolt against Radford (incorrect: the Air Force's General Nathan F. Twining is with him, the Army's General Maxwell Taylor and the Navy's Admiral Arleigh Burke against). So torrid is the battle, wrote Leviero, that all discussions of the manpower program have been postponed until after the election...
...hide their symptoms rather than risk ostracism from society. The best estimates place current leprosy cases in the world at from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000, but some experts suspect that there may be as many as 20 million victims, most of them living in the torrid regions of southern Europe, Asia, Africa and Central and South America. The disease has been virtually stamped out in the temperate zones (the U.S. has no more than 1,000 cases, one-third of them at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, La. and Northern Europe only a handful...
Dartmouth's Doug Brew ran a torrid anchor leg as both the Indians and Army outran the Crimson two-mile relay team. Cairns tired by his 1000 effort barely held a 30 yard lead given him by Dick Norris and Otis Gates. Anchorman Bill Morris could do no better than third...
From 1942 to 1948 the Smoker was suspended for the war. Reborn by the class of '51, the frolic, headed by Al Capp and Victor Borge, seemed to assume a pace less torrid than that of the liberal pre-war years. But in 1951 Sally Rand bounced back to Memorial Hall to reveal more facts. "I am a ballet dancer," she purred. Miss Rand lectured '54 on the threat of Communism and then retreated amid a hail of pennies and ice cream bricks. Later when interviewed in her Scollay Square dressing room, she told the CRIMSON "I got no personal...
This Old House. In Mexico City, 91-year-old Melania Maria Yosset accused 91-year-old Miguel Marine of setting fire to her boudoir in a jealous rage as a climax to the "torrid love affair" they had been carrying...