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Pardee, who won the indoor IC4A high jump with a Harvard record 6 ft., 9 in., will have to wait for his first varsity spring appearance to shatter the outdoor mark of 6 ft., 4 1/2 in. Senior Jack Spitzberg is the Crimson's next best, and the Pardee-Spitzberg duo gives Harvard a one-two punch no other Eastern school can match...
...truck that rammed into the back of a soft-drink delivery truck in a Detroit suburb two years ago did far more than shatter a load of bottles; it made legal history. When he heard liquid dripping from the broken bottles, said Jack Newby, driver of the soft-drink truck, he was seized with a terrible fear that his gasoline tanks had ruptured. The dripping recalled a wreck he had witnessed years before, when he watched two people burn to death in a fire fed by gasoline. As a result of his fright in the cab of his truck, Newby...
...which marked the metamorphosis. In modern times, the story of initiation has taken a gloomy turn--it has been painted as an end to innocence, an exposure to squalor or violence, a rude "realistic" shock from which the youth may never recover. Economic, moral, and interpersonal burdens conspire to shatter his early sensitivity. Ermanno Olmi has written and directed a film of a contemporary initiation which spurns both these alternatives...
Those events awakened long-slumbering Negro resentments, from which a fresh Negro urgency drew strength. For the first time, a unanimity of purpose slammed into the Negro consciousness with the force of a fire hose. Class lines began to shatter. Middle-class Negroes, who were aspiring for acceptance by the white community, suddenly found a point of identity with Negroes at the bottom of the economic heap. Many wealthy Negroes, once reluctant to join the fight, pitched...
...highly reactive chemicals. It may have properties that do not exist on earth and that earthlings cannot imagine. A two-man spacecraft to land on this unknown surface is being built by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., but if it had to be redesigned at the last moment, it could shatter the whole schedule...