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...Yale, the basketball team's surprising successes, the destruction of the Ivy League by the hockey team, the squash team's near miss against Yale, and the consistent wins of the track team. The spring saw one success after another by the Eastern championship baseball and tennis teams, Joel Landau's astounding victories in leading the track team to the rout over Yale, and the lightweight crew's domination of the East and subsequent invitation to Henley. It is unfortunate that such a successful spring be terminated by the University's dropping two of the college's less fortunate teams...
Lysenko, a second-rate biologist, was enthroned because his theory that environment could produce any desired result fitted in neatly with the Communist theology. Physicist Lev Landau was tossed into jail; Physicist Abram Joffe barely escaped being shot; and Geneticist N. A. Vavilov died in a slave labor camp, while his younger brother, the president of the academy, dutifully signed the documents destroying his brother's life work...
...Topchiev, the party still belabors scientists with demands that they "must not hold aloof from the ideological struggle," and if deviating intellectuals no longer disappear from the face of the earth, they can still disappear from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along a friend. The friend, though billed as a fellow scientist, seemed to Landau's hosts to be more of a political chaperon. Freedom, it seems, can still ebb and flow like the tide, and latterly it seems to be ebbing again. Reported Peter...
Today, in addition to those who reached the finals in these events, the varsity will have Pete Reider in the 2-mile and Landau in the 220 low hurdles...
Last year, the varsity tied for fourth with 12 points on the strength of a hammer win by Pete Harpel, thirds in the low hurdles and two-mile by Landau and Reider, and a fifth in the two-mile by Dyke Benjamin...