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...National Heart Institute is barely halfway through an ambitious project to evaluate four drugs for possible use in preventing heart attacks by lowering the level of cholesterol in the blood. Last week a preliminary-premature, said some doctors-report raised hope that one of the drugs may already have prevented some attacks...
...last major test before the Olympic trials in mid-July, Harvard fell quickly behind Vesper. At the halfway point on the Orchard Beach Lagoon course, Vesper held off a Harvard challenge, but the Crimson boat poured it on over the last 500 or 600 meters to win by a length and a half...
...appeal from the President for an end to the "insane traffic" in guns, but Congress responded by completing action on a measure so toothless?it provides for little more than a ban on mail-order handguns?as to please even the N.R.A. Johnson scorned it as "watered-down" and "halfway," dropped hints that he might veto the entire crime bill of which it is a part...
...destruction was too widespread to be happenstance. Items: Several burned neckties. A smashed mirror. A torn book titled What I Believe. A row of glass bottles, their necks grotesquely melted halfway down inside their bodies. A series of self-destructing slides-on their first showing, they melt and dissolve in the projector's heat...
Tibbetts has played seventh man for Harvard all season, but picked up his pace yesterday as he blazed through his first 18 in even par 71 to take a three-stroke lead over Keefe, Lopucki, and Heisler, who all came in with 74's at the halfway mark...