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Blocked at Home. Finch helped organize Nixon's 1962 gubernatorial campaign, but even as Nixon lost, Finch started to get the political fever again. The political winds at the time were blowing hard toward Ronald Reagan, and a wiser Finch decided to skip the big contest and content himself with the lieutenant-governorship. In a surprisingly large victory, Finch succeeded in outpolling Reagan by about 100,000 votes. All through this period, Finch remained close to Nixon. When Nixon decided to run for the presidency in 1968, Finch was one of the first to start the wheels rolling...
...especially susceptible to disabling illness that lasts several weeks. Others can throw off the flu after a week or so, with perhaps half that time spent in bed on a high fluid intake. No medication does much good, except aspirin to ease the discomfort and help lower the fever...
Faces--Played at a fever pitch with sustained dramatic intensity, John Cassavetes' attack on middle-class fun-and-games is nonetheless not a very good film. The camerawork is frenetic but uninventive and stifling, the sound poor, and the subject treated too superficially for its two-hour running time. Still, an emotional tour de force, with acting that occasionally approaches greatness. Starting next Wednesday at the CINEMA KENMORE SQ., in Kenmore...
Last week, for the first time since 1909, both schools came into The Game with perfect records, and football fever blazed so high that student scalpers were getting up to $175 for a Harvard Stadium seat. Proud possessor of a defensive unit that called itself the "Destroyers' Club," Harvard had allowed its opponents only 230 yds. and 7.6 points per game. Yale, a team that ranked No. 3 in total offense, had averaged 467 yds. and 36 points a game...
...incorrect. Vaccines against smallpox, yellow fever, measles (rubeola) and mumps contain live attenuated viruses -all are given by injection. In fact, the Sabin oral polio vaccine is the only commonly used live-virus vaccine in the U.S. not given by injection...