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History and Lit was now thought of as a field for an elite--a reputation that many concentrators and tutors have since tried to live down--but more important was the esprit de corps of the tutorial staff. It was a small, brilliant group, led by Matthiessen and Perry Miller; there was a feeling that they were doing something unique and important in the Harvard curriculum. There were disagreements, to be sure--some tutorial meetings ended in fistfights--but enough agreement existed on central principles and objectives to make History and Lit a great, cohesive field...
...IRBM as its first stage and is expected to put 1,300 lbs. in orbit. The instrument payload, said Johnson, will weigh "several hundred pounds." Later shots will use Atlas ICBMs as boosters and will put as much as five tons in orbit. Some of the satellites will carry live animals, including a "primate," and attempts will be made to bring them back alive...
...many cattlemen the proof of cattle quality is not in blue ribbons but in butchering. Last week 296 steers that had entered the judging rings live were rejudge in the cooler. Results: of 81 steers that took honors on the hoof, only 33 met the test as meat (chief disqualification: excessive fat, too little lean). The top carcass honors went to a lean-hipped 749-lb. Aberdeen-Angus, entered by Larry McKee, 17, of Varna, Ill., that had not won even an honorable mention in the ring...
Invitational Bowling (NBC, 10 p.m.-ad infinitum). The finals of the world series of bowling, broadcast live from the Chicago Coliseum...
...sense is Boris Pasternak a popular hero in Russia, or a practical rallying point of resistance. The West certainly has no grounds for claiming him as a political ally, and at best will have to live up to him as a moral one. Yet Zhivago has become one of those portents of freedom whose ends are incalculable. Among Moscow students a couplet goes...