Word: virus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vicious Virus...
...John Shea, vice-president for student affairs, said that blood tests given to the gridders showed that all of them had the virus, although not all were sick yet. He said that the college plans to isolate all those infected in order to prevent spread of the disease to the rest of the student body...
Heyburn still bothered by a cold, said before the race that he wanted to lead at the two mile mark, and a quick sprint just before that point enabled him to do so. Colburn. who had a virus recently, is running better. "There's a little bit of improvement each time," he said...
...Seniors Keith Colburn and Roy Shaw, junior Dave Pottetti and sophomore Bobby Seals were to have formed a tentative nucleus for Harvard's defending Heptagonal champions, but both Shaw and Pottetti reported to camp woefully out of shape. Colburn missed two weeks of practice with a virus and Seals was plagued with a sore knee...
...tells of how a group of super-scientists (at least one of whom is a toned-down version of J. D. Watson) set to work in a secret, five-story, underground bacterial research center in Nevada--part of "Project Wildfire." Their object is to identify and neutralize a lethal virus brought back from the upper atmosphere by a Scoop satellite that has crashed in the middle of the Arizona desert. Since the enterprising virus multiplies at a giddy rate, they must, of course, do in the thing by the time it gets to Phoenix. From the very first chapter (when...