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...special treatment" involved sleeping on a board bed (Pritsche) with a special board pillow, having your breakfast and supper cut down to bread and margarine with a bit of cheese for supper, and losing "lying-down priveleges," which meant you had to sit or stand for sixteen hours a day in your cell with nobody to speak to or anything to read. No matter how strong I might remain, the screams, the crying-fits, and the muffled shrieks of people shouting "Hold out a little longer (Aushalten)!" as they beat their fists against the iron doors and hurled chairs against...
...undergraduates, except transfer students and those who were eligible for and accepted Sophomore Standing upon matriculation, the degree course requirement is sixteen courses. No course credit or course reduction is permitted for Advanced Placement awards for such awards only placement not credit is offered...
Messing survived a year's worth of Olympic qualifications before being named the starting goalie. At the Pan-American games in Call, Colombia this past summer, the United States finished fifth out of sixteen teams and Messing was named the tournament's outstanding goalie. He held first-place Argentina to only one goal...
Pierre Vallieres still has sixteen charges outstanding, one of which is conspiracy (although all the other alleged conspirators have been acquitted). He returns to court this month...
...death, Khrushchev-with the aid of eleven generals and marshals-arranged the arrest of Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's hated secret-police chief; Beria was executed six months later. Khrushchev became First Secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, but that powerful post was not enough. Sixteen months later, he ousted Malenkov, the Premier and Stalin's successor, and replaced him with his own puppet, Nikolai Bulganin. Finally, in March 1958, he assumed the premiership himself, acquiring undisputed control...