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...final attempt, the courageous Mahoney elected to try a forward 3 1/2 somersault, the hardest dive in the book. He scored an admirable 7 1/2 points on one judge's card, a full point better than the best score given any other dive all day. The effort earned him fourth place and a standing ovation from the crowd and established him, according to Brooks, as the best diver in the East...
Harvard will not repeat last year's ECAC hockey championship. The Crimson dropped a volatile 6-4 affair to Clarkson last night in upstate New York, and will have to be content with almost but not quite upsetting one of the hardest-hitting teams in the East...
...Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Edward P. Radford Jr. and Dr. Vilma R. Hunt worked with polonium,* one of the rarest of the naturally occurring elements and until recently one of the hardest to detect. Many radioactive elements are found in tobacco leaves, as in all vegetation; they occur naturally and have nothing to do with man-made fallout, and they have been exonerated as causes of lung cancer. Polonium is different, the Harvard researchers reported in Science, because it vaporizes at a mere 500° C., far below the 800° temperature of a burning cigarette...
...Hardest Pinch. Some defense companies insist that continued international tensions and the need for ever newer weapons will make any severe defense cuts impossible over the long haul. The Pentagon argues that major cuts are possible, points out that heavy spending to develop basic weapons systems is over and that further outlays will be mainly for modifications to update them...
Since future Pentagon outlays are apt to go to big, well-managed firms that can afford to invest in cost-saving methods, small companies will be pinched hardest. Hundreds of tiny subcontractors, many of them in the vulnerable electronics industry, will be hurt if prime contractors are forced to do more work themselves to keep their own shops busy. As for the big contractors, their main worry is that the spending slowdown will hobble the growth rates they want to keep...