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...lack of an adequate facility at the Jesuit complex, scheduled visitor Harvard hosted B.C. in the 35-pound weight throw and shotput events, yesterday at Briggs Cage. Thanks mainly to the heaving of Danny Jiggetts, the Crimson holds a 12-5 edge in the staggered meet, which shifts to the Eagles' domain for the remaining action this afternoon...
...dancer in Martha Graham's company, broke away from his mentor in the late forties to form his own dance troupe in New York. At the same time Cunningham was involved in the artistic experiments at Black Mountain College, taking part in the first "happening" along with composer John Cage and working alongside writers such as Charles Olson and Robert Creeley (Olson once composed a prose choreography for Cunningham called "Apollonius of Tyana."). Cunningham is known for using chance methods in his choreography, even to the point where the flip of a coin would determine the next movement...
...John Cage, painters Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, and others pay special homage to Cunningham, attempting to understand him as a teacher, performer, collaborator and creator. They know in their bones--though Klosty is the only one so bold as to say so--that the gathering of artists, musicians and dancers around Cunningham in the fifties was as significant a group in the history of the arts as was Bloomsbury or Gertrude Stein's "charmed circle." After the second World War, the arts in New York took on a vitality and strength which Cunningham and his followers helped to create...
...American Red Cross. Standing in back of the victim, the rescuer reaches both arms around him, makes a fist and grasps it with the other hand. Then, placing the thumb side of that fist against the victim's abdomen above the navel but below the rib cage, the rescuer presses his fist sharply upward. This elevates the diaphragm and compresses the lungs, increasing the air pressure within the windpipe and forcing the food particle out like a cork from a champagne bottle. Since Heimlich began popularizing it a year and a half ago, his hug of life has been...
Coach Bill McCurdy last night called the victory "great in terms of enthusiasm and people doing things." But, McCurdy qualified, "this really only amounts to our first full workout because of the inavailability of the cage...