Word: breast
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Abramson, the team captain, was honored with the Hal Ulen Award, the varsity's highest honer, and sophomore breast stroker Bob Corris received a trophy as the highest point total scored during the season...
Hard-headed Joseph Alsop has had his say on last week's teach-in. In a syndicated column datelined "Cambridge," which appeared yesterday in the Boston Globe under the headline "Harvard Teach-in Misguided," he labeled the participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...
...team standings with 66 points. Other record breakers in the three any meet included Indiana's Fred Schmidt no knocked more than two seconds off the national 200-yard butterfly record with a time of 1:51.4 and Indiana's Tom Yetheway who won the 200-yard breast broke...
...solely in the province of genetics, and to have nothing to do with cancer, until Dr. H. A. Hienz, at the Pathology Institute in Essen, Germany, brought the two together. He was seeking an explanation of the fact that many women who have had surgery for cancer of the breast get along well for years on regular doses of the male hormone testosterone, while others on the same treatment soon suffer fatal recurrences of their cancer. Current theories to explain this phenomenon did not satisfy Dr. Hienz, or Dr. P. N. Ehlers of Heidelberg...
Could it be, they wondered, that Barr bodies might somehow account for the varying reactions to hormone therapy? First they had to find out whether there was any difference in the Barr bodies of different cancer patients. Dr. Hienz discovered that cancer cells from about two-thirds of the breast-cancer cases he was studying contained a normal quota of Barr bodies. But in cells from the remaining third of the patients he could find few or no dark spots. The absence of Barr bodies in some of the cancer cells suggested that those cells had been, in effect, partly...