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...meet began closely enough, as Harvard grabbed the first two slots in the mile event, but Brown came right back with first in (unexpectedly) the weight throw and the 60-yd, hurdles. Then Hasan Kayali and Sola Mahoney opened the door a crack with a one-two Harvard finish in the long jump. A few minutes later, Harvard kicked the door in. Wayne Moore, Ralph Polillio and Joe Salvo swept the 60-yd. dash. Before the night was over the Crimson Harriers went on to sweep three more events and place the top two finishers in four others...
Thus far the government has been reluctant to crack down heavily on the samizdat publications for fear of stirring up even more popular unrest and making martyrs of the underground writers. Polish officials dismiss the dissident writing as insignificant, but they regard its proliferation with dismay. Earlier this month, police confiscated 450 copies of Opinia in the Warsaw apartment of one of the journal's distributors. But that put only a modest dent in the magazine's circulation. About 5,000 copies of every issue are printed, and each copy is believed to have 20 to 30 attentive...
Magnified 615 times with the scanning electron microscope, the body of a carpenter bee resembles a forest in a nightmare. At 13,818 times, a crack in an eggshell is a mysterious view of a devastating earthquake. In Magnifications (Schocken; 119 pages; $24.95), Photographer David Scharf takes the reader on a visual adventure into microspace. The images are beyond normal senses, but through the microscope Scharf puts the reader eyeball to eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals...
Starting out in a 1-2-2 zone and later switching to an aggressive player-to-player defense, the Crimson women limited the Eagles to low percentage, outside shots. "They just couldn't crack the player-to-player," Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder said...
...salivating dogs. All of them seem to be at least three feet tall at the shoulder and as fat as toads. a bored and sleepy youg man, who appears to be the night watchman, materializes at the door, regards me abstractly for a moment and opens the door a crack. Immediately, two or three dogs squeeze by me and careen off into the night. The watchman slams the door shut as soon as I edge in, assuring me that I will not be dovoured if I show proper respect. There are dogs on top of me, dogs below me, dogs...