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...University was originally interested in the Bennett St. Yards as a site for a tenth House, but decided early this year to seek another site. President Pusey said in September, that he did not believe MTA would leave the Yards anytime in the foreseeable future...
...depressed by automation, a mahout-maintained model with buck et seat, two-tone umbrella and stick shift costs up to $1,500 f.o.b. Bangkok, or about $4,000 delivered at the Bronx Zoo. In Thailand, a U-Ride-It elephant is still a bargain at $2.50 a day (one-tenth as much as a rented truck), and is still hard to beat when it comes to bird watching, spraying treetops or hauling logs. But it is impossible to find pachyderm parking space in Bangkok. Shrugs a taxicab mahout: "Elephant too much fighting, too much kicking, too much eating. I like...
...birds and mammals store up extra oxygen for their endurance dives was exploded long ago. Somehow they manage to survive on less oxygen rather than more. But how? Dr. Scholander soon found out that on submergence in a bathtub the seal's heartbeat is slowed to about one-tenth of its normal rate. This happens so fast that the trigger for the circulatory defense mechanism seems to be psychological rather than physical. Scholander's experiments proved this. A loud, sharp noise produces the same heart-slowing effect on a seal at the edge of a tank; a seal...
...Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs last night endorsed a Winthrop House Committee proposal to name the planned tenth House John Fitzgerald Kennedy House...
...College, money for a Tenth, and possibly an Eleventh, House, new funds for increases in faculty salaries, and several million dollars for an undergraduate science center...