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...snowcapped Andes of South America are a cruel and unforgiving barrier. When storms are brewing, plane crashes are frequent; invariably after an aircraft goes down, mountain people remark that "the Cordillera never gives anyone back." Last week, though, the Cordillera had been forced to give back 16 of the 45 people who had been aboard a Uruguayan air force plane that hit a mountain peak in mid-October. Incredibly, the survivors lasted for 73 days in deep snow and subfreezing temperature. They took extremely grim measures in order to do so-they ate the bodies of those who had died...
...free, for instance, two Big Green swimmers. John LeMeal and Jim Bayles, are well under ten minutes, while the Crimson's Rich Baughman and Hess Yntema, both capable of going well under the barrier, are still hovering at the ten minute mark...
...stretch-out comfort of first-class leg space at every seat." Scenes of passengers stretching out in flight materialize on a screen just over McEvoy's left shoulder. This word-sign and picture technique continues in the commercial-the first TV promotion aimed at breaking the silence barrier for the deaf...
...opinion, the primary barrier to the free flow of information in our country is not the explicit infringements on civil liberties that are sponsored by the government. Rather the free circulation of ideas and information is limited by the fact that our newspapers and universities are dominated by the capital controlling class which has interests in conflict with those of the vast majority of the people...
Radcliffe sophomore Nancy Sato broke the sex barrier for Harvard's athletic teams last Saturday, by diving in the J.V. swim meet against Williston Academy...