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Before the season started, McCurdy saw a very bright future for his team. Besides Rittenburg, the best hurdler and broad jumper in the Ivy League, he had a nucleus of promising men coming up from last year's unbeaten freshman team, and a host of veterans from last spring's third place Heptagonal finisher...
...Nucleus Lost...
...heaviest so far. They did it by bombarding Uranium 238 (Element 92) with a beam of positively charged nitrogen atoms from a 60-inch cyclotron. The nitrogen atoms contained seven protons and seven neutrons, and when they collided with U-238, all except five of the neutrons joined its nucleus. The seven added protons raised the atomic number to 99, and the added neutrons and protons together raised its atomic weight...
...freshman teams will also compete today. The swimmers, with a strong nucleus of middle distance men, have whipped their three opponents and the wrestlers have won their matches easily...
With members of this year's unbeaten Yardling cross country team forming the nucleus of the distance events, and a "terrific" group of weight men, Coach Wilson gives his team a good chance of equalling the '56 record of ten wins and no defeats...