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...effort to halt the epidemic, 3,000 of the soldiers are under drastic quarantine. These are the men who have been on Fort Ord's 29,000 acres of hills and wind-blown sand dunes for less than eight weeks. For reasons that still have medical researchers baffled, only the rawest recruits seem subject to the disease. After a man has spent two months on the post, he apparently develops immunity, and cases among the permanent party are virtually unknown...
Prifty's second, a 300-foot air-mail delivery to left, might have been a long out. John Dockery got his hands on the wind-blown ball, but lost control when he ran into the swamp basin at the edge of the outfield...
...sports shirt worn outside the trousers, but otherwise excited no sartorial emulation. Jack Kennedy did. "Suddenly everybody wanted to look like he came from Harvard, or like he thought everyone looked at Harvard," says Grossman. And it is hoped that the floundering hat industry, for which Kennedy's wind-blown look did nothing, will revive under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson. Fortnight ago Alex Rose, president of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, paid a call at the White House and announced President Johnson's blessing for an L.B.J. hat-a lightweight...
...only truth in this picture is that Tech girls have brains. They consistently do as well as or better than the boys. All take the same standard freshman calculus and chemistry; most wind up majoring in math or science. As for looks, Tech now boasts striking equations-long legs, wind-blown hair, fresh faces-attached to creatures who turn out to be working on doctorates in fluid dynamics while researching hydrofoils for the Navy...
...more than 1,000 years, the city stood empty in the barren, wind-blown valley, 34 miles northeast of where Mexico City now stands. Ever so slowly, its palaces and temples, splendid with brilliant murals and shell-thin pottery, disappeared beneath the sifting earth, until at last only a pair of massive, truncated pyramids and a few mounds remained to mark the city's grave. Even its name was forgotten...