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...trying unsuccessfully to improve on the now-familiar stepped steel shafts that replaced hickory in the 1920s. Fiber-glass shafts, for instance, are whippier than steel, but their extreme flexibility only tends to exaggerate flaws in a golfer's swing. Aluminum is more rigid than fiber glass, and lighter than steel. The lighter shaft allows manufacturers to put more weight into the club head. The result for the golfer: a faster swing with the same effort-and increased distance on each shot. Another advantage of the speeded-up swing is that the club head tends to rotate less, thereby...
Peter Camejo, 27, and Reese Erlich, 20, were suspended Tuesday by Chancellor Roger W. Heyns. Nine other students were given lighter disciplinary action for their part in last month's antidraft action...
...second half of the concert was in a decidedly lighter vein. Princeton sang songs im Volkston from the U.S., Russia and a little town in New Jersey. With traditional libidinousness, Harvard sang Morely's Say, dear, will you not have me, The Old Maid's Song (from Pulaski County, Ky.) and Randall Thompson's Tarantella. The latter featured both a sensitive rendering of the accompaniment by Philip Kelsey and the perfect concordance of a police siren with a third-inversion F-seven chord, giving Cambridge the world's only police department with perfect pitch...
...picture does have its lighter tones. Under the present government, wages are rising and the standard of living has improved everywhere-even deep in Siberia, where log cabins in the muddy villages now have TV aerials on their roofs. As a citizen of the Soviet Union, the Russian enjoys a large measure of security and many social benefits. Both husband and wife must normally take jobs to support a family, but the Russian gets high-quality medical and hospital care for nothing, pays practically no rent, can go to a university free-if he can pass the entrance exams...
...company 37 years ago, when he signed on for an engineering training program. One of G.M.'s brightest tinkerers, Cole was marked as a comer in 1952 when he was asked to fire up the then dowdy Chevrolet division. In a bare 15 weeks, he developed a lighter, snappier engine that he coyly boasted had "a little intrigue." It had enough to spur a new burst of sales, and four years later Cole was head of the division...