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...Finish High School at Home." 8 1/2" x 11". 24 pp. With serene confidence, a young man and a young woman, dressed in black mortarboard and academic robes, stared at me from the cover. They have seen what it's like, I thought, the sock-hops and the hoop frays, the twirling batons and the blaring bands. Tears welled to my eyes as I opened the booklet...
Another landmark in Harvard hoop history will be passed tonight every time junior Keith Sedlacek scores a basket. Sedlacek established an all-time season scoring record of 458 points last Saturday, and should bloat that total against the Elis tonight. He will also become the first Crimson player ever to average more than 20 points in his a season...
...apple. In practice, he stands idly under the backboard sucking on a lollipop, dropping ball after ball into the 10-ft.-high basket-without ever leaving his feet. In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot (in which he leaps up and rams the ball through the hoop from above) and the "backward dunk" (the same thing, but backward over his head), and the only way anybody has figured out to stop him from scoring is to glue his sneakers to the floor somewhere around midcourt...
...sent out by small electrical vibrators buzzing at the rate of 60 cycles per second, will take some of the burden off the pilot's saturated eyes and ears. A ring of vibrators worn around his waist and buzzing in rapid sequence will fee! like a spinning Hula Hoop. The message would be an effective means of alerting a pilot to a particular danger...
...disappointment in not finding a home, a landlord immediately offered him an apartment. The local Catholic and Protestant clergy, meeting for the first time while preparing for the week, found the experience so agreeable that they have set up monthly conferences. And Lutheran officials are so cock-a-hoop over the results that they want to test their luck in larger communities. Next year a Faith in Life Dialogue is planned for Duluth, the year after for Minneapolis...