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WHEN A HARVARD team of biochemists lept into national attention in December with the announcement that their undergraduate co-worker was letter-forger and that their recent breakthroughs in cancer-related immunology might also be bogus, all sorts of interesting people around the University began running for cover...
...snare drummer picked up a hot shuffle; the second line cheered and lept into motion. The band broke into a riotous number called "Joe Avery's Blues" and began to march down a narrow little brick street behind the French Quarter. This was a soul neighborhood, and the people were hanging out of their sagging window sills and doorways and sitting on front porches of little splintery wooden houses. Children ran out of the alleys and into the street. The old people smiled and nodded approvingly from their rocking chairs. Scruffy little barking dogs were running all around...
...plastic, electronic Nixon-image that I had always known, but I found the real Nixon overpowered in my mind by the plastic. As we talked, I thought with astonishment of the millions of synthetic Nixon-images which this one Nixon-mold had spawned. At one point the thought lept into my head that if I were to reach across those few inches of space and strangle the real Nixon, the millions of other Nixons all over the nation and the world would self-destruct as quickly as the news could be spread. The public figure, while far more palpable...
Chris Pardee jumped to firsts in three events as Harvard lept into a commanding first day lead in the Greater Boston Collegiate meet...
Aggrey Awori and Chris Ohiri finished one-two in the broad jump indoors at Cornell, but neither has topped 23'9" this spring. Midshipman Jerry Negin has the season's best jump, a 23' 11" effort, and teammate Steve Bliss has also lept past the 23-foot mark...