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...degree murder in the death of a 13-year-old Negro, Virgil Ware. In the disorders that followed the church deaths, Virgil was shot as he rode on the handle bars of his brother's bicycle. The grand jury refused to indict Birmingham Policeman Jack Parker for the fatal shooting of another Negro teenager, Johnny Robinson, 16, who was part of a group that stoned white men's cars in the post-bombing riot...
...national dignity and political continuity it had lacked since World War I. As his seven children and then 23 grandchildren grew up around him, the years added a few more lines to der Alte's face, whose almost Oriental cast is the result of surgery after a near-fatal automobile accident in 1917. But his ramrod back and unflagging vitality became legendary. He often attributed his staying power to the energies he stored up "during my strongest years," when the Nazis sacked him as mayor of Cologne and he did little but tend the roses beside his white hillside...
...while desecrated, defecated-on statues are immune, live human beings are not. For them, cryptococcosis may be a severe or even fatal illness, usually caught by inhaling dust from pigeon droppings...
...contractors, NASA reported, delivered capsules with more than 500 defects, and spare parts that were more than 50% defective. On Mercury's six manned flights, there was an average of ten equipment malfunctions-any one of which might have resulted in fatal failures. Only emergency backup systems and the skill of the astronauts in manual control saved the missions...
Cornell has developed a case of chronic inconsistency, a disturbing disease which struck last Saturday in the presence of the Colgate Red Raiders. During the week several injuries have also developed at Ithaca. These might normally be fatal, but this week's opponent is a rather weak Lehigh. Look for Gary Wood to salvage enough of a team to carry the Big Red through, but do not expect much of a runaway...