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...visit particularly stricken by bad luck was that of Malcolm Fraser, the Prime Minister of Australia, who came in 1976. Fraser's arrival was marked by thick, black and violent rain clouds which sheeted the rain so heavily that one could not see 10 feet ahead. Anderson still laughs when he recalls picking up the Prime Minister, whose plane was nearly two hours late. Returning in the limousine. Anderson attempted to point out some of Cambridge's highlights. "Mr. Prime Minister, that's MIT," the Marshal would say, as Fraser stared into the pitch-black clouds, trying to recognize...
...time Maspons got to the plate in the third inning, the rain made it look as though his shot of the previous inning might get stricken from the books...
...question in AIDS is who will be affected next. So far, the disease has mostly stricken homosexual men (72% of all cases), intravenous drug abusers (17%), Haitian immigrants (4%) and hemophiliacs (1%). But a majority of the experts believe that what was once known as the "gay plague" will enter the general population. Because of their frequent contact with AIDS patients and blood, "hospital workers will be next," predicts Dr. Roger Enlow, a leading AIDS researcher. As head of New York City's brand-new office of gay and lesbian health concerns, Enlow monitors new cases of AIDS...
...When Gandhi's wife was stricken with pneumonia, British doctors told her husband that a shot of penicillin would heal her; nevertheless, Gandhi refused to have alien medicine injected into her body, and she died. Soon after, Gandhi caught malaria and, relenting from the standard applied to his wife, allowed doctors to save his life with quinine. He also allowed British doctors to perform an appendectomy on him, an alien operation if ever there was one. None of this made it to the screen...
Noticeably missing from the Harvard lineup is senior Captain Ted Chappell, a certain NCAA championship qualifier, stricken with an intestinal infection last week that grounded him in his Eliot House room. Also sidelined by injury is junior sprint star Mike Miao, who has seen only limited practice time since early December when he developed a nagging shoulder problem...