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...came in the 880 when two Olympic hopefuls from Harvard, Paula Newnham and Johanna Forman, and sophomore Martha Clabby all broke the previous women's indoor school record. Newnham's record--shattering time of 2:09.3 shaved more than ten seconds off the old school best and skimmed a tenth of a second off of the ITT record...
Morally uplifting, inspiring, spiritually refreshing. Yea, right. About as exciting as Donny and Marie smiling as they give a tenth of their fortunes to the Salt Lake City hierarchy. The Mormons are the original cultists, a century before Moon hit town. Some guy in New York meets two angels in a meadow and leads thousands of submissive followers across the continent to eat locusts and practice bigamy in the deserts of Utah. Not everyone...
...electronic games seem to encourage simple repitition. (Although at Jordan Marsh they encourage nothing since the display models are mostly out of batteries except for one called "Einstein," which sounds, from its weary beep, to be operating at about one-tenth normal charge.) One machine obviously designed to increase a child's self-confidence, boasts simply "I am programmed to beat you." Even Etch-A-Sketch, once a marvelously cranky mechanical drawing toy, has been automated...
...construction worker and a schoolteacher, Hufstedler earned a bachelor's degree in business administration at the University of New Mexico ('45) in 2½ years. She worked briefly as secretary to Stars Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith, then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where she graduated tenth in her class ('49) and married the man who graduated No. 1, Seth Hufstedler. She practiced general civil law in Los Angeles until 1961, when Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown named her a Los Angeles County superior court judge. In 1966 he promoted her to the California Court of Appeal...
...impressive collection of collegiate, national and world squash champions gathered at Hemenway Gym last night for the opening rounds of the tenth annual Boston Open Squash Racquets Tournament...