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...return match in San Francisco the Dons ran up 56 points, while holding U.C.L.A. to a scant...
...Crimson track team, led by sophomore hurdler Joel Cohen, finished a strong second in the New England AAU indoor championships at Providence last night. Cohen flashed to a new Cranston Armory 50-yard hurdle record of 6.6 seconds as the varsity scored 33 1/2 points, a scant one point behind meet winner Northeastern...
...employ fewer than six workers. The smallest contract is sublet to a myriad of tiny enterprises. If they have the luck to find an honest contractor, the French couple may have the pleasure of watching squads of carpenters, masons, plasterers and plumbers move on and off the job with scant regard for each other or for the order of their work, and of seeing walls lie bare for months at a time. The average time to complete a French house: 2½ years...
Despite these attempts to shore up the anti-Communist position, the free world came to year's end with a net loss and a troubled outlook in Asia. There was scant hope that the Communists could be prevented from swallowing up all of Viet Nam. There was great danger in the aura of success that surrounded the Communists in the Far East, where the people want to know: Which side will win? Even in Japan, where the West's good friend, Premier Yoshida, was forced to resign, there was new talk of trade and friendship with Red China...
...been stricken a scant five years' earlier, Toni (a twin with a normal, healthy brother) would not have lived more than four to six months. As it is, she has been kept going since March by regular blood transfusions and a variety of drugs. Doctors can now point to youngsters with acute leukemia who are living happily and almost normally three years or more after the disease struck. A diagnosis of acute leukemia is still a sentence of death, but each discovery prolongs the reprieves that medicine can grant. Doctors hope that they may soon find...