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...only tense moments of the game came early in the second half, as the Crimson was lulled into complacency by Dartmouth's almost contagious lack of ability. Behind the shooting of Chris Kinum and Mike O'Connell (both of whom played well throughout the massacre) the Indians closed the gap to 43-37. But then Harvard got serious, reeled off 20 of the next 25 points, and sewed...
Donald H. Fleming, professor of History and chairman of the department, said last night that "there is no gap in the department," but added "there is no American historian not now at Harvard we think so highly of as Schlesinger...
...reflexes slow down, they are likely to catch a pelota where it hurts-like Erdoza, a Basque champion of the World War I era, who was known as "El Fenomeno" until he put a little extra on a forehand one day and wound up whistling through a baseball-sized gap in his front teeth. Pelotaris like to compare themselves to bullfighters: the pelota is a charging bull, and the closer it comes, the bigger the thrill. In Miami some years back, one player was beaned and killed, and frontons tried to talk the players into wearing protective helmets. The suggestion...
...troubles. Cosmic radiation sickens their semiconductors. Vibrations and swift temperature changes cause fractures in all-important wires. Lubricants evaporate into the vacuum of space. But scientists are already working on some far-out cures. The latest: a tin-magnesium-aluminum alloy that can be made into wires that grow gap-bridging "whiskers" when broken and soon heal their own wounds...
When a wire containing a core of the new alloy snaps, whiskers sprout from both ends of the break. In a few days, the whiskers can bridge a gap one millimeter wide (about one twenty-fifth of an inch) and carry one watt of electrical power-enough for most of the delicate circuitry in modern spacecraft. Collision with a sizable meteoroid might result in damage too extensive for whisker therapy, admits Minneapolis-Honeywell Physicist William Jarnagin, who led the team that developed the alloy. But that hardly matters, he adds somberly. "Everything would go then...