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...course, yielded and spent twelve days in Memorial in late September and early October for treatment of phlebitis, the painful inflammation of the veins in his left leg that has bothered him off and on since 1964. It could at any time cause a fatal blood clot to travel upward in the bloodstream through his heart to the lungs...
Another hope for Harvard's football present and future is defensive tackle Charlie Kaye, who measures about 77 inches upward and weighs 240 lbs. Kaye represents the size which has been sorely lacking in the Crimson defense recently...
...stature of Donizetti's comic masterpieces Don Pasquale and L'Elisir d'Amore, but it does provide Sills with countless opportunities for lambent fioriture, whistling-high E-flats, and howling farce. Her windup salute, which starts somewhere near her right thigh and then circles deliciously upward, has to be seen to be believed. So does the way she gives her dancing master a knee in the chin, or wraps him around her neck while learning to do the quadrille...
...self-loathing. Superficially, he maintains a calm indifference and manipulative diplomacy. He is so much like a chameleon that he acquires the characteristics of persons he's dealing with, including a stutter. For Heller, he is the conglomerate image of corporate man in America, at once the symbol of upward and downward mobility. "I ascend," he says, "like a Condor, while falling to pieces...
Howard W. Davis, Coop general manager, said yesterday that he expects the upward trend to continue. "Our sales for the first three months of this year are way ahead of last year, although obviously everyone is concerned about the economy and it's hard to predict what's going to happen," Davis said...