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...When the National Football Foundation chose football's top scholar-athletes for $500 Earl Blaik Fellowships, all eight turned out to be linemen-who are supposed to be long on brawn and short on brains. The winners: Tufts' David Thompson, Rutgers' Alex Kroll, Vanderbilt's Wade Butcher, Western Reserve's Albert Iosue, Colorado's Joe Romig, Rice's Robert Johnston, Oregon State's Mike Kline, Utah State's Merlin Olsen...
...most successful among 25 patients in whom Orthopedic Surgeon Adrian E. Flatt has installed a total of 92 steel joints at Iowa City's University Hospitals. Some have been working well for 3½ years. British-born Dr. Flatt got the idea from Colonel Earl W. Brannon, who devised a similar steel hinge for U.S. Air Force accident victims. But Dr. Flatt has modified the hinge and adapted the technique to the knuckle and middle joints, which are most often frozen by arthritis...
...label for many who disagree with him, and a talent for such slander as describing Dwight Eisenhower as "a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." His causes are many: they range from a campaign against the fluoridation of water to one demanding the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Welch is a skilled or ganizer who devoutly believes that internal Communism can best be fought by Communist tactics. He advocates the establishment of "front groups" to push his pet projects; although his society's rosters are kept secret, its membership is estimated at 50,000, and many Birchers have...
...Yugoslav pilots in the U.S. It has since spread across the country through supporting committees. With a keen eye peeled for "modern traitors" in government, the movement holds evangelistic-like meetings at which members have heard the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations condemned as "treasonous." along with suggestions for lynching Earl Warren...
While pals from his Soho past gleefully designed him a coat of arms showing a camera over a unicorn, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon, unabashedly unpacked the tools of his old trade to take the first pictures of Princess Margaret with their 2½-week-old son, David Albert Charles, Viscount Linley.*The results were acclaimed as "superb" by fastidious Royal Photographer Cecil Beaton and must have been equally gratifying to Retired Photographer Armstrong-Jones, who, peddling his shots at up to $9 a print, was taking home his first earnings in 18 months of royal matrimony...