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Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack, 51, who quit under fire in 1958, also got off the hook. Due to be tried again for conspiracy in rigging the FCC award of a TV channel in Miami (a first trial last year mired in a hung jury), Mack was examined by two court-appointed physicians last week. Their verdict: Mack is a bedridden alcoholic who has consumed from half a pint to a pint of whisky daily for years. The judge postponed the trial until such time as Mack can safely travel to a courtroom...
Tommy Carroll will lead the Elis today, and he will be ably backed by Bill Bachrach and sophomore Bob Mack. The Yale home grounds have acquired a reputatior as a "speedsters' course," and Carroll, who won the 880 in last spring's Harvard-Yale track meet in 1:49.8, will be in his element. However, Mark Mullin and Jed Fitxgerald of Harvard ran Carroll into the ground last spring in the two-mile, and may hold a psychological advantage...
Bachrach is an extremely unpreposessing runner, whose every step often looks as though it will be his last. Still, he has done very well for Yale this season. Mack is one of three sophomore prodig --the others being Pete Hoey of Princeton and the Crimson's Ed Hamlin--who will have a lot to do with the outcome of the race...
With their proportionately bulky bodies supported by puny wings, many flying insects look about as airworthy as a Mack truck. French Zoologist Antoine Magnan once studied bumblebees for several years, reached the conclusion that their ability to fly defied all known physical principles. The secret of this kind of flight lies in rapid wing beats. The tiny midge beats its wings 1,000 times per second to stay airborne, each beat contributing a minute amount of lift...
...Keystone Cops come a-slapsticking out of The Fun Factory of Mack Sennett, as this episode traces the development of the producer genius who, on the side, discovered Charlie Chaplin...