Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...medical examination began before immigrants were even aware of it. Doctors stationed in the hall simply observed the newcomers as they walked by. In six seconds, physicians checked off 15 diseases. They placed chalk marks on the lapels of those who needed closer scrutiny: H for heart, L for limp, X for mental defect. With still evident embarrassment, Sophie recalls a distressing moment when a nurse "put her hand under my skirt. She was checking for I don't know what, but she did it to everyone." Then a doctor dipped a buttonhook into an antiseptic solution and used...
...Chalk up another true-to-life role for Actress Cicely Tyson. She has already starred in television biographies of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. This time Tyson plays a Chicago superteacher, Marva Collins, in a TV movie to be aired next fall. Collins has coaxed children of Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area from near illiteracy to discussions of Roman history and Michelangelo. She also coached Tyson in classroom technique, and gives the actress high marks as a student. Says Collins: "Cicely takes her acting as seriously as I take my teaching...
...running back rushed for 6,137 yds. in high school and set national records by scoring 85 touchdowns, 45 of them during his senior year. He was also state champion in the shotput (54 ft.) and the 100-yd. dash (9.5 sec.). Son of a chalk-mine foreman, Walker graduated with honors...
David slaying Goliath, the Greeks at Thermoplylae, the American Revolution, the Six-Day War, the Miracle Mets, and now chalk up one more to the underdogs: The Game...
...school was celebrating its Ivy League centennial and its homecoming weekend, and the odds were stacked against the Crimson from the start. With first-string quarterback Brian Buckley sidelined by knee problems and running backs Jim Callinan and Paul Scheper out with injuries, Harvard did not figure to chalk up an easy win against preseason Ivy favorite Dartmouth, especially in the Big Green's belligerent backyard...