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...Dives & Loops. To learn more about the moth's methods of escape, the two scientists set up a floodlight and trained a camera on its beam. When an insect flew across the floodlit area, the operators opened the camera's shutter and turned on their electronic beeper to simulate a cruising bat. "Many insects." say Roeder and Treat, "showed no change in flight pattern when they encountered the sound. In others, the changes in flight path were dramatic in their abruptness and bewildering in their variety. One of the commonest reactions was a sharp power dive into...
...history's unlucky men: Edward Everett, the Massachusetts Senator (and onetime Harvard president) who delivered the two-hour "main" Gettysburg address, only to be upstaged in two minutes by Abraham Lincoln. Swift descent also once felled John Everett, when at 15 he took a sleepwalking dive from a third-floor window, breaking 36 bones and earning 4-F status in World...
Saturday will also be the big day for the Crimson's only other entrants. Jeff Lewy and John Shelton, competing in the three-meter dive...
...leader in the dive was Bob Long of the University of Connecticut. Bill Teetle of Navy was second...
Tomorrow, the championships in the one-meter dive, 200-yard butterfly, 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 220-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, and 400-yard freestyle relay will be decided. Of particular interest will be Crimson sprinter Bruce Hunter's attempt to take the 50 crown away from Charlie Brown of Dartmouth, last year's upset winner...