Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ETRUSCAN, by Mika Waltari (381 pp.; Pufnam; $4.50), takes its readers on a Cook's tour of the Mediterranean world of 500 B.C. The voluble guide is a young superman called Turms, who clobbers men, conquers women and seeks his ease in the lap of the gods ("I saw her, the goddess, taking shape and resting lightly on the couch, lovelier than all earthly women . . ."). Turms is also busy making history. He contributes to the death struggle between Greece and Persia by setting fire to the temple of the Persian goddess Cybele in Sardis, helps incite war between Carthage...
Actually, the varsity's mile win was just retribution for the drubbing the Eli two-mile relay team handed a second string varsity quartet. Yale won from B.U. in an exciting finish as the varsity finished fifth, a half lap behind Yale...
Mike Robertson, running lead-off for the mile relay team, ran fourth at the end of the first lap, nearly seven yards behind Ed Holohan of Yale. At a lap and a half he passed Columbia and moved into third, still nearly seven yards behind the front-running Eli. By the first hand-off, he was second, less than five yards behind Holohan...
...visitor's one quiet moment came as he attended a Christmas party and play for the refugee children in the camp auditorium. When the play was done, the Virgin, a plump eight-year-old, and one of her angels sat happily on the Vice President's lap as all of them sang Silent Night...
...realignment, the ¼-inch (or shorter) bones had to be magnified 16 times under a new type of Zeiss lens. Last week Barbara was home again, enjoying Christmas carols clearly for the first time, and hearing-instead of merely feeling the vibrations-as her black kitten purred in her lap...