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...Angeles, where common illnesses unaccountably take uncommon forms, the epidemic was at first widely described as "Q flu" because of the question as to its nature. Virologists soon proved that the virus was no mystery agent-merely the familiar Asian strain. But the ill-health picture in the area was complicated by other factors: the semiannual epidemic of "Spencer's disease," as local doctors like to call unexplained outbreaks of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and a second type of upper respiratory illness, milder than flu, presumably caused by a virus of a different family. One or another...
Nonetheless, nearly all the Amherst-bred teachers voiced enthusiasm for their jobs. Reason: "A tremor of excitement coming from the secondary schools." With curriculums in ferment across the country, "notes of boyish idealism" were not uncommon among men in their 505. They forecast exciting opportunities in TV courses, team teaching, counseling. They urged Amherst students to enter a profession "on the way up," suggested that Amherst could thereby help "deflate the grey-flannel success myth" prevalent at "provincial" Ivy League colleges. One prep-school teacher asked: "What other job would pay me to play squash every afternoon? In what other...
...tackles, if Bob Pillsbury's head injury does not keep him from play next year, the varsity will have three of the League's finest in Pillsbury, Eric Nelson and Darwin Wile. Mike Sheridan and Bill Greelish give the Crimson uncommon depth at this position...
...Leave Your Keys." The Chevy Division was bucking a problem most uncommon in Detroit: it had grown too conservative. Chugging along on what was basically a 1937 engine, the division was losing out to competition. Sales had slipped from 1,517,609 cars in 1950 to 871,503 in 1952. G.M. President Charlie Wilson grew worried, offered to give Chevy Boss Thomas Keating anything or anyone to pep up Chevy. Said Tom Keating: "I want Ed Cole." Red Curtice, then G.M.'s executive vice president, sent a hurry call to Cole, told him of his promotion to chief engineer...
...dermographia-his skin was so sensitive that they could write on it with their fingers (TIME, Jan. 19). The doctors got him to play basketball. Within 15 minutes the patient had hives and a swollen left eye. He was released from the Army. But allergy to effort is so uncommon that goldbrickers trying to feign it will...