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Last Saturday night the water polo team got drunk and swam up and down the Charles River. While the group played leap frog on the Wecks and Lars Anderson Bridges, somewhere its competition in the second Boston invitational championship was fast asleep...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Poloists Surprise Field; Finish 2nd in Invitational | 5/19/1971 | See Source »

Bird, Plane, or Frog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Downs Penn Netmen, 6-3; Briggs and Barnett Pace Victory | 4/21/1971 | See Source »

...eventually be able to abandon sexual reproduction entirely. That startling and perhaps unwelcome possibility has been demonstrated by Dr. J.B. Gurdon of Britain's Oxford University. Taking an unfertilized egg cell from an African clawed frog, Gurdon destroyed its nucleus by ultraviolet radiation, replacing it with the nucleus of an intestinal cell from a tadpole of the same species. The egg, discovering that it had a full set of chromosomes, instead of the half set found in unfertilized eggs, responded by beginning to divide as if it had been normally fertilized. The result was a tadpole that was the genetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE BODY: From Baby Hatcheries To Xeroxing Human Beings | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...also salute North Carolina's great gubernatorial power, who, despite his veto handicap (North Carolina Governors do not have the power of veto), proclaims such earthshaking events as "North Carolina Possum Pickin' Day," "National Hollerin' Day" and "Frog Jumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1971 | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...Elton John is an English one-man music industry whose songs range panoramically from country rock to blues. Leon Russell, the presiding master of gospel rock, invokes the Lord Jesus with piano playing that has a touch of Fatha Hines and a voice that has a touch of bayou frog. Nashville's Kris Kristofferson, an ex-Rhodes scholar, sings bluntly sensual protest songs that have made him the most controversial country songwriter-singer of the day. Van Morrison, an Irishman late of Them, flavors his blues-gospel-folk broth with a salty pinch of jazz. In the wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: James Taylor: One Man's Family of Rock | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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