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...Marathon Swim...
...little more than half an hour after Kenji Kimihara led the four-man Japanese delegation across the Boston Marathon finish line yesterday. Tom Pollard, a second-year Med School student, harbingerd a not not-so-closely-bunched, not-so-swift contingent from Harvard...
Bugs are little, and easy to look down on. Ever since Charles Darwin decided that man and his almighty brain were winning the amoral marathon of evolution, it has been fashionable to pity the poor insects for entering a blind alley of biology that mammalry was smart enough to miss. To promote a larger sense of reality, Entomologist Ross E. Hutchins in this unusually competent volume of popular science invites the reader to climb modestly down the Tree of Life and to shinny out on a branch of evolution unimaginably larger and in many respects more fruitful than...
...could. For those who are barred by Castro or lack the patience to wait as much as five years for a plane seat, there are other routes. Last week four Cubans hijacked a 43-ft. government mineral-resources boat and tootled into the Florida Keys. Seven others put into Marathon, Fla., in a 16-ft. sailboat, and the U.S. Coast Guard rescued an other twelve Cubans in a small craft just off the Cuban coast. But the week's boldest...
...sports, swimming easily draws the largest crowd, including many who compete by teams in a nine day marathon to see who can swim the most miles. Another large event is the intermural meet on April 20th, held in Radcliffe's indoor pool, one of the nation's oldest. Unfortunately, the pool is three feet short of the regulation 20 meters, so that five newly set pool records are not recognized outside the college...