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...leap that began in 1945, when a line of people over half a mile long lined up in New York City to buy the symbol of the new post-war age--the ball point pen. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to be modern, and a pen that could write upside down (as well as under water) certainly seemed a step in the right direction. That same year, Harvard got into the modern act as well, as a committee to study the curriculum began to meet...
Discussing the almost inconceivable results of a full-scale nuclear attack on Boston to emphasize her warning. Caldicott told her hushed audience that all people within a six-mile radius of the city would be immediately vaporized, as concrete and steel structures burned and a deadly storm of fire and wind raged over as much as a 15,000-square mile region...
...never forget McCurdy's seemingly easy freshman workouts--only three quarter mile sprints all out. It seems so simple with 12 minute intervals between each sprint. So as a freshman I ran them all full speed--boy did I hurt-that's something I'd never do again today. There are definitely things you learn by the time you're a senior...
Ears to transistor radios, thousands of fans picnicked in the sun on the banks of the Thames and in boats, awaiting word of the start of the crucial four-mile race. On the banks, men in three-piece business suits and varsity ties read. The New York Times, while children climbed trees searching for a better view. An elegantly antique Radcliffe grad in a white lace shirt and a straw hat, smoking a Tiparillo, waited patiently under a tree while two former Harvard competitors from a race long past reminisced about their own experiences at Red Top, Harvard's special...
...University of Utah hope to do soon: implantation of an artificial heart. The challenge is formidable, since the heart is one of nature's masterpieces. The fist-size organ beats 100,000 times a day, and over a lifetime pumps enough blood through the 60,000-mile circulatory system to fill 13 million bbl. The Utah heart, dubbed the Jarvik 7 for its designer, Robert Jarvik, is made of plastic and aluminum and powered by electricity. The implant operation will be performed by Utah Surgeon William DeVries. He will cut away the heart's lower chambers (the ventricles...