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...freshman swimming team scored a 64-31 triumph over Andover Saturday in the IAB, setting three new records and missing another by one tenth of a second. John Munk set a Harvard pool record of 54.6 in the 100-yard butterfly and Harvard's 400-yard freestyle relay set a pool record of 3:18.7. Steve Krause continued his sparkling season with a record-breaking 3:51.6 in the 400-yard freestyle. The 220-yard medley relay team was only one tenth of a second off the old freshman record...
...consciousness of a great many flabby, middle-aged Americans. And how have they reacted? They are skipping rope in a gym class, jogging around the reservoir, pedaling a pinioned and wheelless bicycle, flailing arms before the bedroom mirror, doing push-ups on the office floor-in a tenth-hour campaign to redeem years of reprehensible physical neglect...
Continuing in a statistical vein, he noted only one-tenth of one per cent of eligible Peace Corps men have had trouble with their draft boards. If that happens, said Vaughn, all the Corps officials--and in one case even the King of Nepal--write to the boards and General Hershey saying "you can't do that." This policy has been successful, he said...
Gloomy words from Rocketeer Dr. Wernher von Braun, 55, darkened the tenth-anniversary celebration of the first U.S. satellite, the 31-lb. Explorer 1. Budget cuts, warned Von Braun at a National Press Club luncheon, were "dismantling the high competence" of the U.S. space effort and supplying funds "too low to maintain progress and momentum." All the same, noted Dr. William H. Pickering, 57, head of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it has been a zingy decade-notably in the space race with Russia. Pickering's box score: 500 satellites, 13 successful moon missions, 2,000 hours...
...inhabitants eat French food in restaurants, shop for French bread, sip crèmes and demi-pressions (beer) in sidewalk cafés, grow up on French textbooks and must be familiar with Racine and Corneille by the tenth grade in school. Most of all, the top men are firm partisans of Charles de Gaulle. "I consider the general my adopted father," says Brigadier Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Republic and a former officer in the French colonial army. "Politics does not enter into our relationship...