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...Guinea Pig? The question, "Will my child get the real shot?" was uppermost in the minds of tens of thousands of parents who took children, aged one to six, through Houston's eight inoculation centers, which worked day after day and right through the Fourth of July holiday. Some mothers had pestered doctors, before the inoculations began, trying to arrange for their children to get gamma globulin. A few intended to go through with the experiment, and then blithely undermine it by having their family physician give their children a "sure" shot of "G.G.," as they have come...
...class of 1927's freshman academic difficulties, the faculty came up with a new policy, "no probation after November hours." Relived, the sophomores helped make the Dartmouth game a sellout, but four fumbles gave the Big Green a 6 to 0 win. Despite this setback, football seemed to be uppermost in the undergraduate mind--so much so that Dean Greenough '98 complained. "Mother prefers to have her son a quarterback on the football team rather than have him a scholar...
...from Billy Mitchell's public martyrdom to Tooey Spaatz's pleas to Congress, had achieved its purpose. Van vowed to keep his arguments "in channels" and in the secret councils of the Joint Chiefs. This did not prevent him from making broad public hints of the problem uppermost in his mind-how to break the paralyzing balance-of-forces concept, which parceled out equal funds to all three forces, without regard to missions or requirements...
Calhoun said, "The fellows just have to start thinking rugby; it isn't like football where a coach can tell you what to do." As the ruggers only have three veterans from last year this problem of thinking is uppermost. It was apparent in yesterday's scrimmage with M.I.T...
...dozen of the uppermost generals and admirals of the Big Three Western powers locked themselves into a map-hung inner sanctum in the Pentagon one day last week and conferred for eight hours. Their sole topic: the increasing threat of an all-out Communist attempt to swallow up Indo-China...