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...dignitaries who made the nine-mile run to 145th Street and Broadway in 26 minutes. Today, the littered cars, clashing and swaying through the underground dark, packed torso to torso or eerie with emptiness, have increasingly become hunting grounds for the city's sick and sinister creatures of prey. Complaints of major crimes increased 9% in the city during 1964, the police department announced last week. But complaints of serious crimes-such as robbery, mugging and armed assault-grew by a staggering 52% in New York City's subways...
...Crimson touch players suffered. Terrell and Tarry Robinson, second and third players for Harvard, fell prey to Penn's Howard Coonley and John Reese. Robinson, in a match interrupted by several injuries, lost a heartbreaker 15-7, 15-12, 8-15, 12-15, 15-13. Adams and Dave Benjamin (number 6), Harvard's drop shot specialists, lost to power players...
When President Johnson fell ill, it was "an upper respiratory infection." Last week, as more Washington bigwigs fell prey to swarming viruses, Washington gossip dubbed the disease "executive flu" and blamed its spread on too many people being crammed into tight spaces-such as the White House dance floor. To most victims, the trouble remains an unglorified bad cold. By any name, and of whatever severity, it is still a mystery...
...reason, explains Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures. "They're a kind of never-never land in modern undress." Teen-agers are not necessarily flattered by so much commercial attention. This month the student assembly at Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., rebelled and condemned manufacturers who prey on "gullible teen-agers...
Bats hunt night-flying moths by echolocation, uttering rapid chirps of ultra sonic sound and flying toward echoes that bounce back from their prey. It is a simple and effective system, but Dr. Roeder proved several years ago that noctuid moths can hear the search sonar of a cruising bat and take evasive action. To save their lives, they fold their wings and dive to the ground or shift suddenly into a zigzag course (TIME, June...