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...even after she "came to," until he touched her elbow. When he ended the trance, the girl remained rooted before the receiver, her left arm numb and inert. After the usual wait for a hospital elevator, Spiegel walked into the laboratory and touched her elbow. Only then did she regain sensation in the arm and the power to move it independently...
Harvard's other chance for points, sophomore sprinter Wayne Andersen, had his problems on the muggy Rutgers track. He made it to the finals of the 100, but slipped coming out of the blocks and spent the first ten yards trying to regain his balance. By the time he did, he was a lead-pipe cinch for sixth place...
...skirts fly. See the gallant gentlemen help the poor damsels in distress regain control of their runaway steeds. Come to the annual Harvard-Wellesley Bike Race, taking off from the Soldiers Field gate at 2 p.m. Sunday. The prize: no, not the fox's tail, but a Peugeot racing bicycle, compliments of the Bicycle Exchange...
...cord from an electric coffee pot, and forced him onto the bed in the other room. At this point, the man began to ask Resnick questions about the whereabouts of Nwall, his roommate. Resnick passed out from the effect of the drug he had swallowed, and did not regain consciousness until the next afternoon...
Weathercock. Author Lenard was born in Budapest in 1910. He recalls the outbreak of the first World War, a day when the city went mad with rejoicing, as "the last happy day that mankind was ever to know." The rest of his life has been an attempt to regain the paradise he feels he lost at that moment...