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...company barely survived its birth pangs. To get plant space, Norris & Co. bought Minneapolis' overextended Cedar Engineering Inc., but they badly miscalculated the funds they needed to turn the company around. To ward off ruin, Control Data's top 20 employees took a 50% salary...
Sophomore Bill Ward, who missed the Wesleyan game, will return to his post as center half, flanked by Tony Davies on the left and Dave Clapp on the right. Alex Cortesi and Chuck David will probably start at fullback, though Munro predicted Lou Williams will see a lot of action. John Adams will be ready to fill his usual slot in the goal...
...origin of genders, worked two years before he found that a student at Heidelberg had long since done the subject with unimprovable thoroughness. "I mouth the strange syllables of ten forgotten languages, letting my spirits fail, my youth pass," he youthfully wrote. Then a roommate, Australian Bacteriologist Hugh Ward, introduced John Enders to Hans Zinsser, Harvard University's professor of bacteriology and immunology, and one of the great fertilizing minds of his era (Rats, Lice and History for the layman. Infection and Resistance for the profession). Enders was then 30. "A man of superlative energy," Enders wrote of Zinsser...
Edward Jenner had found, before 1800, an empirical method of protecting man against one dread disease now known to be caused by a virus: infection with cowpox ("vaccinia," hence the general term vaccination) would ward off later infection with the deadly and disfiguring smallpox (so called to distinguish it from syphilis, "the great pox"). Louis Pasteur achieved a similar triumph of empiricism. Unable to isolate the microbe of rabies, he simply assumed that it was too small to be seen and developed the Pasteur treatment for victims of bites by rabid animals...
With Chris Ohiri and five other starters missing from the line-up, Coach Bruce Munro is looking to luck and his reserves. "You can pick our starters out of a hat," says Munro, who will be without his top players, Bill Ward, captain Ted Wendell, Tony Davies, Emmanuel Boye, Ed Klufio, and Ohiri...