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...more medical researchers learn about the benefits of mother's milk, the more wondrous a substance it seems. It helps protect the baby from such assorted ills as colic, diaper rash, gastrointestinal disorders, allergies and the common cold. Breast feeding, say some doctors, even wards off emotional disturbances later in life. And there are valuable side effects for the mother...
...baby's sucking action stimulates the release of the hormone, oxytocin, from her pituitary gland, which causes the womb to contract and hastens recovery from childbirth. Even more important, women who have nursed are less likely to develop breast cancer. Yet for all these advantages, only two out of every five U.S. mothers give their babies the opportunity to breast feed...
...diversion between regular events, members of the Harvard Swimming Team, who served as timers for the meet, joined the House teams for two unscored "fun relays." In the first relay the leadoff man was asked to swim two lengths of back stroke, and the anchorman two lengths of breast. Four girls from each House swam a lap each of freestyle in between. For the second relay the Harvard participants were asked to carry balloons while they swam...
Abramson, the team captain, was honored with the Hal Ulen Award, the varsity's highest honer, and sophomore breast stroker Bob Corris received a trophy as the highest point total scored during the season...
Hard-headed Joseph Alsop has had his say on last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...