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...overconfident Harvard basketball team, riding the crest of a six-game winning streak, was rudely upended last night by a more inspired, more aggressive, and sharper shooting Tufts five, 68 to 63, at the I.A.B...
Conquest: On the crest of an urgent new interest in science, CBS this week launched a new $1,000,000 series, ten hour-long shows spread over this season and next, sponsored by Monsanto Chemical Co. "to help penetrate the wall that separates the man in the laboratory from the rest of us." The opening show put the viewer's eye to microscopes that revealed viruses and, through time-lapse photography, a human cell mushrooming with cancer. It also presented a primer on oceanography and, in the best segment, an exclusive filmed report of Air Force Major David Simons...
...Marguerite Higgins, which has decorated Pulitzer Prizewinning stories from Korea and weighty dispatches from world capitals, popped up last August in Reader's Digest and other magazines. Under the headline ONE BILLION UNFILLED CAVITIES MUST BE WRONG! ran a pseudo-news story by "Noted Journalist" Higgins, plugging Crest toothpaste. Washington-based Maggie Higgins, 37 (married to Major General William E. Hall), took her $500 fee and thought nothing more of it until she got a letter from the Standing Committee of Congressional Press Gallery Correspondents, questioning whether she had violated its rule against "paid publicity or promotion work...
...Harvard skydiving team took first place at the country's second intercollegiate parachute jumping competition, held on Saturday atop the windswept crest of The Good Hill Farm in Woodbury, Conn...
...dawn came the third big push, and the easiest, as they chipped ice steps and worked their way up, 400 ft. an hour. They had topped Grand Pilastre's crest by 10 a.m., climbed another eight hours over easier ground. At 6 p.m. they scrambled at last atop the great peak of Mont Blanc. They descended by an easier route. Next day, as European newspapers front-paged their feat, Walter Bonatti went skiing for exercise...