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...less dramatic change, if on a lesser basis, has been wrought at Harvard. This year, for the first time in its history. Harvard has a handful of long distance runners who rank among the best in the country. Harvard runners have recorded times in the mile and two-mile that are easily among the 10 fastest collegiate performances this year. A Harvard relay team has to its credit the season's fastest two-mile relay time in the nation on an 11-lap track...
...problem likely to plague South Viet Nam the longest is the widespread destruction of its cities, its towns, its homes. It was the Viet Cong's decision to bring the war into the midst of the cities, and the initial damage was wrought by Communist guns and mortars. But the bulk of the actual destruction occurred during the allied counterattacks to oust the Viet Cong. For allied commanders, these posed a grim dilemma that was summed up bluntly-and injudiciously-by a U.S. major involved in the battle for Ben Tre. "It became necessary to destroy the town...
...undid Harvard's carefully wrought lead with a mid-period explosion of three goals, all engineered by star sophomore center Tim Sheehy...
...copper came from Cyprus, the tin from far-off Britannia, and the Greeks wrought the ensuing alloy, bronze, in myriad forms: vases, swords, tripods, safety pins, mirrors, votive statuettes, household icons and colossal public statues. Most of the large statues have been lost, broken up or melted down, but thousands of graceful hand-sized household objects and prized miniatures remain. Though fragmented and stained with the crusts, scars and patina of age, they nonetheless offer spirited insights into classical days and ways...
...deftly the Greeks-and Romans and Etruscans-wrought this versatile metal from 1700 B.C. onward can be seen from a display of 316 classical bronzes, covering a period of 23 centuries, selected from 79 private and museum collections by David Gordon Mitten of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum (see color opposite). The first exhibition on such a scale ever to be circulated in the U.S., the classical bronzes will be shown at the City Art Museum of St. Louis in March, later at the Los Angeles County Museum...