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...come in the combina- tion race, which is made up of members of the second freshman and third varsity boats, and is raced only on this occasion. The Harvard boating will be: bow, Tony Parker; two, Ed Poliakoff; three, Bill Wolbach; four, Andy Larkin; five, Jake Fiechter; six, Geoff Lister; seven, Tom Scarvie; stroke, Clint Allen; and cox, Quentin Sullivan...
Surgeon Joseph Lister had never heard of viruses when he began to de velop aseptic surgery a century ago, but he showed uncanny prescience when he picked carbolic acid for the germ-killing spray in his operating rooms. Temple University's Dr. Mor ton Klein has been comparing germi cides, and reports that Lister's phenol, or carbolic acid, is as potent as the fancier formulations of modern chem istry against most viruses; it is actually more potent against some of the small est viruses, which cause many respira tory diseases and polio. Also potent are sodium hypochlorite...
...Capitol Hill, including the past 18 in the Senate. He is the No. 2 man on the Foreign Relations Committee and, more important, has sponsored all sorts of legislation vital to his state's economy, like help for housing and small businesses. He shares with his colleague Lister Hill, also a TVA liberal, major responsibility for the fact that Alabama gets a more-than-generous cut of federal aid. Sparkman even had his day on the national scene, as Adlai Stevenson's running mate...
...will certainly back one of his henchmen against Sparkman, in which case the incumbent would stand no more than an even chance. And if John Sparkman survives that test, he will still have to face a Republican in November in a state with a resurgent G.O.P. In 1962 popular Lister Hill won by only 6,800 votes against Republican James Martin. And Martin, since elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, is ready to run against Sparkman next year...
...television's G.E. College Bowl quiz, breaking all records and mopping up $10,500 in scholarships. With snap-snap-snap aplomb, the team had proved that it knew the word that means both monk and monkey (Capuchin), the doctor who pioneered the use of carbolic acid (Joseph Lister), the play that opens on the setting of the palace of Theseus in Athens (A Midsummer-Night's Dream), and 200 other facts...