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...last of the oldtime scholar-presidents, though hardly a slouch at modern fund raising, Goheen is nearly a polar opposite of Yale's outspoken, well-publicized Kingman Brewster Jr. Nonetheless, Goheen's 14 years' experience as head of a great university seems unlikely to end with quiet retirement to a classics library. At his age, say Goheen watchers, his public life may have just begun...
...round-trip time of each short burst of light-about 2½ seconds-scientists have been able to measure the distance between earth and moon to within six inches or less. They are gathering invaluable data on such puzzles as the drift of continents, the earth's polar wobble and possible changes in the force of gravity. At the Mount Hopkins station, scientists are tracking reflector-equipped earth satellites and measuring pollutants in the upper atmosphere...
...Walter Hickel for President! Why not? When he came in, many of us thought he was the kind who'd sell the polar bears for fuel oil; but he turned out to be an able, conscientious conservationist...
Barring an unlikely Bowdoin upset. Harvard and Clarkson will have a chance to fight it out in the championship game while Yale tries to avoid yet another loss as the Polar Bears lick their wounds in the consolation game...
Bowdoin is hoping to prove itself in big college competition with and upset over Clarkson. The Polar Bears went 19-3 with an entirely American team last year in Division II and beat four out of the five Division I teams they played. They are 5-1 this year, with a 7-4 loss to U.N.H...