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Dartmouth took control of the ball at the beginning of the game. Adeptness in the Dartmouth backfield proved fatal to the Crimson's hopes for victory, the Indian's first score coming in the opening five minutes of the game. From then on Dartmouth had the game in its pocket. The Crimson forwards tried in vain to stem the Green tide. Buzz Miller, Mike Auer, and Bart Francis were particularly effective in the back but could not stop the speedy Indians...
...with large dope rings or their equivalent. If Leary's accounts of his work may be taken at face value-- and there is every reason to suppose that they may, since they have not been in the least covert--his drug research is legitimate clinical psychology. The one, nearly fatal, handicap his research suffers is that it is unorthodox...
...campaign's savage exchanges stem in great part from Dilworth's proven ability to demoralize an opponent on the stump and bury him in a bluster of verbiage. Scranton simply means to stay cool, let Dilworth blurt himself into a fatal political blunder. In 1958 Dilworth made just such an error when he advocated the admission of Red China into the United Nations-an issue that had nothing to do with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination he was then seeking. (He has since changed his mind...
...joke," one scientist commented. "Inside the ring, there is tremendous leakage of energy in the form of high-frequency radiation. A person caught in there when the machine is running would receive a fatal does in a small fraction of a second." Eight feet of concrete and lead are used to shield the experimental hall personnel from the ring's radiation...
...farmer, has just returned from a year of schooling in the city. With her first whiff of the pure country air, she again falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, the galumphing but more-than-pure, Osgood. He asks her hand and, in reply, she delivers the fatal lines, "Oh Osgood, that cannot be. The die is cast...