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...test for the varsity comes on Dec. 16 against Manhattan. Fortunately the meet is in the local Snake Pit, which almost insures a Crimson victory...
...fence follows the border like a giant snake, twisting and turning, dipping and curving around fingers of Wrest German land that jut into East Germany. On the Elbe River north of Helmstedt, East German patrol boats watch out for refugees. At Schnackenburg, the Communist patrol boats share the river with West German customs boats, inspecting the traffic that flows into East Germany. "It's hard to believe that this is the Elbe, and that these people speak German," says one West German customs official. "We haven't exchanged words in five years...
...walk eight miles from home to his school at Sekondi on the Ghana coast. Harvard Graduate Roger Hamilton, 22, teaching in the coastal village of Assinie, is cut off by tropical rains for nine months of the year, shares his house with a herd of goats and an occasional snake, sometimes needs eleven hours to Jeep 18 miles over Ghana roads to collect supplies. Hamilton has no complaints. Says he: "It's a good thing I don't mind isolation...
...that Joseph Heller is a superb describer of people and things. Take his portrait of a character called Hungry Joe: "A jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Hungry Joe ate voraciously, gnawed incessantly at the tips of his fingers, stammered, choked, itched, sweated, salivated and sprang from spot to spot fanatically with an intricate black camera with which he was always trying to take pictures of naked girls." And Heller can fill one page with yammering, visceral...
...loggerheads, into partnership. Meeting at a national congress on medical quackery in Washington, D.C., A.M.A. President Leonard W. Larson (TIME cover, July 7) and Health Secretary Abraham A. Ribicoff agreed that the public is vulnerable largely because it believes that quackery went out with the river boats and snake-oil peddlers, that it can't happen now. Instead, said Ribicoff, extravagant claims of earlier times have given way to "the illustrated brochure, the medicine-show extravaganza to the television commercial." Among the quacks now under FDA attack, Ribicoff pointed out by way of a modern horrible example, are peddlers...