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Renold took random samples when there was no stress, got an average eosinophil index of 123 for the varsity crew. After a practice pull, the oarsmen's eosinophil average dropped to 19. When the day of the Yale race came, the counts were down to an average of 64 before anybody had lifted an oar. The coxswain's was down...
...colliding with one another every 10,000th of an inch, as they do at sea level, they travel many feet between collisions. When a solid body passes through such a rarefied atmosphere, it behaves as if it were moving in space containing a few ping-pong balls in rapid, random motion...
Revive the Dead. Once Around the Sun, Critic Atkinson's new book, deals only infrequently with politics and the theater. Its 365 random essays, one for each day of the year, touch on everything from New York's subways ("Hogs get better care in transit") to tax collectors ("We have submitted to the despotism of contrivers, bullies, informers and crooks") ; from Times Square ("This slovenly canyon") to Russian drama and literature ("Stalin's success in destroying them is one of his mightiest achievements. No man of ordinary strength could wreck so much national genius...
NONES (81 pp.)-W.H. Auden-Random House...
Haphazard planning has left its mark on University property. Ancient buildings, incongruous architectural styles, and random positioning make clear the need for a University planning group to develop an effective long range building program...