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...particularly dissatisfied with the building's shortcomings. One of the annoying inconveniences for patients is to arrive on a busy afternoon when only standing room is available. The crowded conditions in turn block the passage of nurses carrying supplies. Other means of communication include an antiquated dump-waiter that carries messages form floor to floor...
...leave, he never stops polishing his passes. "He's slim (6 ft., 177 lbs.) but well-proportioned," says Coach Stuart Holcomb, "ideal for a T-quarterback. He's the most unusual boy I've ever seen. He can throw anything: fast, slow, long, short, lobs, bullets, dump passes; take your choice...
...sets of air holes. A hose from a valve near the pilot's navel hooks the suit into the plane's air-conditioning system, and cooled air pours through small holes around his body. Warmed and spent, it escapes through larger holes and a set of dump valves...
Things get going in Desert Hole, N. Mex. (elevation 1 ft.), where Jerry is the flag-stop-station attendant and Dean is what barely passes for an M.D. One day Jerry, stranded in the desert, spots a used-car dump and goes helling home in a rod that is hotter than he knows-a car used to test the effects of radiation in an atomic explosion at nearby Los Alamos and still labeled "Radioactive." Actually, the contamination has worn off. but when Jerry sees the label he collapses...
...President's daily schedule of appointments is usually pretty dull: a conveyor belt of officials and politicians who pass through his office at intervals between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. and dump their problems and requests on his desk. One day last week President Eisenhower got a welcome surprise when Lynda Widerberg, a pretty blonde in a soft blue organdy dress, walked into his office and announced, "I was going to kiss...