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...Crimson sprint star Aggrey Awori dominated the meet statistics, along with sophomore javelin-thrower Peeter Lampe. Awori won four first places, set two Harvard records, tied a third, and broke stadium records in three events. Awori's outstanding mark was in the 220 yd, dash, where he shattered Joel Landau's recent record of :21.0 by four-tenths of a second. Awori's time of :20.6 is undoubtedly the outstanding mark of the Crimson outdoor season...
...stick shifts sprout from car floors, even when they are really only disguised automatic transmission levers. Tachometers stare from dashboards to dazzle the Sunday driver with precious information as to how many revolutions per minute his motor is delivering. And where car nomenclature once connoted carriage-trade-victoria, brougham, landau-the new names and models now smack of high compression-Monza, Le Mans, J-TR, Spyder, Grand Prix...
...long as there are lovers of beauty." Next, Abstract Sculptor Ernst Neizvesnty, whose work also had been attacked by Nikita, took the floor. "You may not like my work, Comrade Khrushchev," the sculptor said, "but it has the warm admiration of such eminent Soviet scientists as Kapitsa and Landau." Retorted Khrushchev scornfully: "That's not why we admire Kapitsa and Landau...
Compelled to Reconsider. Soviet physicians are justifiably proud that they brought Landau, the year's Nobel laureate in physics (TIME, Nov. 9), back to life. Landau's brain had been starved of blood and oxygen for more than 100 days. "It was held previously," says Director Boris Yegorov of Moscow's Institute of Neurosurgery, "that oxygen deficiency of the brain cells inevitably led to their destruction. The Landau case compels us to reconsider the whole of accumulated medical experience. It has overthrown all existing theories." Neurologists outside Russia would not go as far as that. What...
...Landau has recovered most of his memory. Childhood recollections returned first, then those of more recent events. He is even beginning to get back to work, once more thinking the abstruse thoughts of the theoretical physicist...