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...joined the avant-garde and Allen Ginsberg has joined academe. Lacking the diehard convictions of their elders, most of the 1,500 little magazines now being published print anything and wind up sounding the same. "The multiplication of poets sort of leaves my mind blank," says Poet Karl Shapiro, former editor of Poetry. In many ways this collection of essays is a retrospective; editors like Robie Macauley, formerly of the Kenyan Review, fear that the little magazine is "rather like a Conestoga wagon in the day of the automobile...
Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy--Lois Shapiro, Cabot Living Room, South House...
...that adulation, for Einstein was the most eminent among them in this century and, in the eyes of some, the greatest scientist of all time. Says Nobel Laureate I.I. Rabi: "There are few ideas in contemporary physics that did not grow out of his work." Adds M.I.T.'s Irwin Shapiro: "He makes me proud to call myself a physicist...
Scientists are also conducting ever more sensitive tests of Einstein's theory. M.I.T.'s Shapiro and his colleagues have been sending radio signals past the rim of the sun, bouncing them off other planets and clocking their return to earth to an accuracy of better than a millionth of a second. The object: to see if solar gravity slows the signals down by the amount forecast by Einstein. So far, general relativity has passed these and other tests without exception. Says Yale Physicist Feza Gursey: "Einstein's theories tend to become stronger with time...
...captain Bill Mulvihill, back from an injury, triumphed, 8-3, over Columbia's Pat Gemperlin at 134-lbs., and sophomore Tony Cimmarusti dumped Steve Shapiro, 10-3, in the 167-lb. class for Harvard's other two victories...