Word: tors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Air Force Sergeant Tor Olson, 22, might be called a washout of sorts, he is anything but unhappy about that appellation. In March, the 145-lb. Olson was comatose and near death from liver failure brought on by hepatitis. Today he is not only alive but well, thanks to the first successful flushing, or "total body washout," of a patient's circulatory system. Colonel Gerald Klebanoff of Wilford Hall Air Force Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, attempted the pioneering procedure af-ter Olson had been in a coma for three days and showed no indications of reviving...
...late leftist publisher Vic tor Gollancz subsidized The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell's classic report on wretched British mining conditions. It turned out to be a hot coal indeed. In a pusillanimous preface, Gollancz deplored Orwell's "general dislike of Russia" and added with evident shock: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring to Russian commissars as 'half-gramophones, half-gangsters...
CENTER. Tom DeLeone, Ohio State, 6 ft. 2 in., 227 Ibs. Big college∧ centers are so hard to find that the pros often groom a college guard or tackl^tor the position. The best of a mediocre lot, De-Leone should make it in the N.F.L., provided that he packs on a few more pounds. Rated an "excellent long snapper," he never once misfired on a pass from center this season...
...milk-plus at the Korova, according to Alex, "sharpens you up and makes you ready tor a bit of the old ultra-violence." After a glass or two, Alex and his droogs have made up their ras-soodocks what to do for entertainment...
...revolutionary fervor. Miss Luscomb lacks the sense of frustration that impels many of her younger colleagues to violence. She decries the recent tactic of Boston feminists, who took over a Harvard building tor rap sessions and judo lessons. "If they have a right to take over a Harvard building for their cause," she says, "then so do the John Birchers...