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...hockey game) was provided by junior Skip Hare in the broad jump. With only one jump left for all competitors, Hare led at 23'3". B.C.'s Dan Burke, however, toped this with a final jump of 23.5 1/2". Undaunted, Hare topped his previous best for Harvard by an inch as he soared 23'6", less than a foot short of Aggrey Awori's Harvard record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spengler, Nosal Pace Track Team As Crimson Humbles Eagles, 68-41 | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...AFRAID of witnessing the death of an eleven-inch trout by port wine...

Author: By Steven W. Stahler, | Title: An Attempt to Clarify What Exactly It Is That Richard Brautigan Says About Trout | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

...meat quality of properly dosed sheep. The new technique provides an additional fringe benefit for the sheep. If the wool is allowed to continue growing for as long as three weeks after the drug is administered, the constricted segment of the fibers is pushed about an eighth of an inch beyond the skin. Thus ranchers can not only peel off the wool evenly, but also leave a woolly stubble behind to protect the sheep against the elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: How to Peel a Sheep | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Essential Gesture. Each cast comes off after about 20 minutes. By slopping on water, Segal can rework the cast days or months later. "Originally, I thought casting would be fast and direct, like photography, but I found that I had to rework every square inch. I add or subtract detail, create a flow or break up an area by working with creases and angles. I'm shaping forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Presences in Plaster | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...sung in English, that it isn't a sin to eat meat on Friday, and that the Jews didn't kill Christ after all, are hardly of major importance. On all the significant issues-birth control, divorce, abortion, censorship -the church hasn't budged an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 29, 1968 | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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