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...What is a tenth of a second? It is one-eighth of a heartbeat, 1/30th of a sigh, 1/21,000,000,000th of a lifetime. It is, literally, the blinking of an eye - an in significant instant to people who measure their lives in minutes or months or 40-hour weeks. But not to Robert Lee Hayes, 21, a husky sprinter from Florida A. & M. University. Hayes is the world's fastest human, a title he holds by virtue of the fragile fact that he can run 60 yds. or 100 yds. a tenth of a second faster than...
...star practicing starts every afternoon, blasting out of the blocks time after time, fighting to pare a tiny fraction of a second off the time it takes him to get in motion. "It's a matter of reflexes," says Hill. "It takes a runner 1/100th to one-tenth of a second to react to the starter's gun. The idea is to get Bob to react as instantly as possible." And one day Hayes will get a perfect start-the gun and the first driving step in the same tick of time. Both Hayes and Hill are certain...
...hears is that no university, even Harvard, can be a repository for universal knowledge and that there is no reason to complain about a weakness in a particular field. It seems, however, that if Harvard can manage to be a repository for the intellectual History of Armenia, Fifth through Tenth Centuries (Armenia 166), it ought to be able to find one small niche for the Indian subcontinent. Daniel H. Saks...
...idea of a national student fund drive for the Library originated in late December when a number of Harvard students asked the University Administration for a memorial to the late President, Proposals for a John F. Kennedy chair, lecture series, or tenth House were originally considered, but were all rejected by, the University as conflicting with Harvard's support of the Kennedy Library. A Harvard fund drive for the Library was then suggested which evolved into the present national program...
...Right now the IAB is almost bursting from the intramural program" Samborski said." "We can't play as much basketball as we'd like, and when the tenth House is built, the problem will be just that much worse." "The graduate students don't have much room at all; we'll have to do something about that too some time," he added...