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While Columbia settled to a 44, Harvard lowered their stroke to a 26, where they remained for the body of the race. The Lions couldn't maintain their cadence, eventually sagging to a 40, and at the halfway marker, the Crimson held a half-length lead...
Seven members of CNVA--including two girls and a Harvard student on leave of absence--are now halfway through a 20-day jail sentence. Along with four others, the seven were sentenced for loitering and obstructing traffic for an attempted sit-in March 23 at the Boston Army Base in South Boston. Two of the other four, including a Harvard senior, paid a $20 fine instead of going to jail. The last two, both Harvard students, have appealed the decision...
BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK 1 (3 LPs; Columbia). Glenn Gould is now halfway through Bach's magnificent "exercises," performing the first 24 preludes and fugues on the piano. There are times when Gould hams it up, and there are certainly too many of his infamous hums, but he makes the pieces spring to life with bold overall conceptions, marvelous technique and vaulting lines...
...with patience and prodigious efforts extending halfway around the world, researchers at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness have managed to inject lab animals with kuru, or "laughing death," an especially mystifying disease of the nervous system that has decimated Fore tribesmen in eastern New Guinea (TIME, Nov. 11, 1957). Eiro, a 13-year-old Fore boy, died of kuru in his New Guinea highland village in September, 1962. A visiting doctor did an autopsy; he took tissue from Eire's brain, froze it, put it in liquid nitrogen at - 70°C., and shipped...
...Hester now has 1,600 staff members and 5,000 students living near the main campus in Greenwich Village. For additional faculty and student residences, two towering apartment buildings by Architect I. M. Pei are nearly finished (a third will be a commercial co-op). N.Y.U. is more than halfway through a $100 million fund drive, has hired Architects Philip Johnson and Richard Foster to unify the Village campus by face lifting old buildings and designing new ones...