Word: marathons
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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...
...National spread south as far as New Orleans and west to Denver, absorbed 22 smaller chains with 485 stores in 16 states. The acquisitions helped double sales, made National stores the fifth largest U.S. grocery chain, with $1.2 billion sales last year from 941 stores. Last week, after a marathon investigation, the Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1 that National, between 1951 and 1958, had expanded in a way that substantially lessened competition, and was therefore in violation of the Clayton Act. The FTC allowed National to retain the 485 stores in question, but barred any further acquisitions...
Issues of Veracity. In a marathon, ten-month proceeding, the tortured story of Krebiozen was told and retold. The Durovic brothers had made millions, the Government charged, and salted some away in Swiss banks. Dr. Ivy's savings were said to have jumped in eight years from a mere $16,983 to $222,153 (his wife had done well in Wall Street, explained Ivy). The defendants, the prosecution claimed, had encouraged patients to visit Chicago, then supplied them with Krebiozen to take to their home-town doctors-which was illegal in any case where the patient crossed a state...