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...powerful Navy crew nosed out the Crimson lightweights at Annapolis Saturday to shatter the varsity's victory string at 32. Finishing first by 1.2 seconds, the Middles crushed Crimson hopes for their fourth consecutive undefeated season and threw a snag in their plans for an easy victory at the EARC sprints...
Integers of Uncertainty. The Rev. Theodore Gill, president of Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, approves Dr. Bonnell's rebuke to the "gloomy guses, who seem to assume that our shakiness will shatter the church and that our failures will flunk God." But he notes that "Dr. Bonnell is ending a long and very distinguished parish ministry. He is positive and hopeful about where his generation comes out, and about the head start it has given to those who now carry on. To those now carrying on, however, Dr. Bonnell's impressive sum of achievements may look more like...
Lilacs bloom listlessly in the dooryards, and the fluid play of baseball is again at hand. Shrill raucous crics of encouragement and derision shatter the cool air above Fenway Park, unruly urchins hurl dirty oranges and even dirtier epithets at their adversaries. Only the umpire's stolid face, inflexible as Procrustes' bed, retains its wintry imperturbaility...
...giant step backward was reported by British Digger James Mellaart, 31, assistant director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Turkey. In the ruins of Hacilar, an ancient Anatolian town 200 miles southwest of Ankara. Mellaart has discovered the remains of a culture so sophisticated as to shatter all previous notions about Late Neolithic man. In Hacilar 7,500 years ago, women wore jewelry, artists produced the first known realistic sculptures of the human figure, kids played at marbles and men at asik, a game resembling jacks but using the knucklebones of cattle, which is still a favorite Turkish...
...cone-shaped concentrator mechanically coupled to the crystal intensifies these vibrations and produces a sharply defined beam. The surgeon removes a small portion of the bone behind the ear, acoustically irradiates the exposed canal with the gun's waves. Much as a soprano's high note can shatter a wineglass, the beams shot from the gun are supposed to shake the diseased cell structure and destroy it. In preliminary tests on a group of 22 sufferers treated with the ultrasonic waves, 15 were relieved of further at tacks of the disease, and four showed marked improvement. In some...