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Last weekend in Philadelphia, Harvard won the Eastern Old Guard Championships, a major intersectional event with five Mid-Atlantic and seven New England schools competing. Leggett took second place in the A Division while Black took first in B as well as overall honors for low point skipper in the meet. Penn was second in the regatta, followed by Tufts, Yale and Coast Guard in the top five...
...that trouble to cover up my head, editorial writers might theorize that I was covering up something else as well." Other public figures who are flaunting their hairless hairlines: Singer-Composer Isaac Hayes, Comedian Don Rickles, the Oakland Raiders' Otis Sistrunk and America's Cup Skipper Bill Picker. Unquestionably at the forefront of these notable noggins is television's Kojak, Sex Symbol Telly Savalas. Baldness, says Savalas, "takes us back to Day One and the way we looked when we first came into this world. 'Bald is beautiful' was the first comment we made...
...Berlitz cites reports of strangely spinning compasses and unexplained electrical failures aboard ships and planes crossing the triangle. He also talks of great waterspouts and baffling stretches of "white water" that were noted by navigators who sailed as long ago as Columbus. He provides testimony from a 20th century skipper who says his 160-ft. tug was yanked for a few moments by weird forces, almost as if "somebody wanted us to be in another place from where we were going...
...James E. Skipper, who will head the Research Libraries Group consortium that includes Harvard, said yesterday that "If the issue is enjoining photocopying, then there are broad implications. It will simply be a large inconvenience for readers...
...Administration Hospital was cited for his discovery of animal leukemia viruses. Dr. Sol Spiegelman of Columbia University was honored for the first successful synthesis of an infectious virus-like particle. Dr. Howard Temin of the University of Wisconsin was recognized for his studies of how viruses reproduce. Dr. Howard Skipper of Birmingham's Southern Research Institute was cited for his work in biochemistry and cell biology. Medicine is still far from finding a "cure" for cancer. But without the understanding that these researchers have provided, the search would be more difficult...