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...Strong Nucleus...
This year's boat should ultimately shape up around a strong nucleus of All-Ivy performers. Tony Brooks, Jim Richardson and Phin Sprague--each a two-time league all-star--and Andy Narva--All-Ivy a year ago--will probably be the backbone of the first boat once again...
...well-worn phrase - about the approaching season. Several swimmers from last year had already quit or were in the process of dropping off the team, and I knew little about the freshman except that highly-regarded new coach Don Gambril was counting on them to form the nucleus of his squad...
...losing at Clarkson a week ago, the Wildcats are hitting the road, and it could mean that they'll have to wait yet another year to play at Boston Garden in the ECAC semifinals, Pennsylvania, once the laughingstock of Eastern hockey, has built a fast, deep squad with a nucleus of Canadian material, and it deserves a seed in the top four as much as anyone. The Quakers have beaten Harvard and Clarkson this winter, and are currently riding a four-game winning streak that includes victories over RPI, St. Lawrence, Princeton and Boston College. They clobbered New Hampshire last...
Died. Maria Goeppert Mayer, 65, only woman besides Madame Curie to win the Nobel Prize in physics; of a heart attack; in San Diego. A German-born scientist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, Mayer visualized the atomic nucleus as a series of onion-like layers of neutrons and protons. That insight was developed into the Jensen-Mayer "shell theory" of the nucleus, for which she shared the 1963 Nobel Prize with fellow physicists Hans Jensen of Heidelberg and Eugene Wigner of Princeton...