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...Crimson beat Penn 66-39 and should find the going no harder this season. However, the Quakers' outstanding performer of last year, a diver named Fisher, returns and will undoubtedly make that event an exciting one. Against Columbia in 1962, the varsity won every event and racked up a near-perfect 76-19 score...
...diving, which was off the one-meter board, was won by sophomore Dan Mahoney with an impressive 89.9 points. His gathering of a near-perfect nine and and an almost never-seen nine and one half would have been remarkable except for the wildly erratic scoring of the three judges, which ranged as much as four points on a single dive...
...Hassel's unusual first names are of archaic Frisian origin and often encountered in North Germany. Uwe (pronounced oo-vuh) is similar to Oswald, while Kai (rhymes with sky) is a near-perfect name for a German politician. It means: "One who is dangerous to his enemy...
...Cooper nearly lost his chance to go into orbit when he became enraged at the decision last year to ground Astronaut Donald K. ("Deke") Slayton because of a reported heart flutter. Cooper offended high NASA officials by vehemently protesting the decision, threatened to quit if Slayton were not reinstated. He was persuaded not to 'bail out of the program by Astronaut Walter Schirra, who made the near-perfect six-orbit flight in October...
Nuclear war will inevitably disrupt communications and force armies to disperse to thinly populated areas; survival will demand near-perfect discipline and quick adaptation to new surroundings. "After the first shock of mutual devastation had been survived," insists Slim, "victory would go, as it did in our other jungle, to the tougher, more resourceful infantryman. The easier and more gadget-filled our daily life becomes, the harder will it be to produce him. It took us some time to do so in Burma. It can be done in peace; in war, there will no longer be so much time...