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Gary Quantock also set a personal mark of 53 ft. 8.75 in. to snatch second in the shot...
...meter race, usually a Harvard stronghold, turned into a nightmare when Eddie Sheehan fell ill and withdrew after leading for the first half. Northeastern went on to sweep the first three spots to snatch a slim, three-point lead...
...classic English recipe beginning "First catch two dozen trout," the principal challenge to the do-it-yourself bombmaker is the snaring of radioactive material. In Z Warning, by Dan Oran and Lonn Hoklin (Ballantine; 336 pages; $8.95), the snatch-80 kilos of plutonium dioxide-is executed with lethal efficiency. The gang that pulls the job has its fusion in a Western mental hospital. There the principals-a deranged young Texas millionaire, a female Japanese physicist suffering from Nagasaki syndrome and a dishonorably discharged black Vietvet -first pool their malignant talents. The group's nuclear capability is channeled...
...Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where Einstein spent his last 22 years, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which he helped found. "It's an avalanche effect," says Relativist Peter G. Bergmann of Syracuse University, one of Einstein's old collaborators. "Everyone wants to snatch a bit of reflected glory." Says Cambridge University's Martin Rees: "Einstein is the only scientist who has become a cult figure, even among scientists...
...ROLLING STONES have finished out 1978, the annus mirabilis of Some Girls and the amazing bootleg Out On Bail, with an interesting snatch of new material: "Everything is Turning to Gold," the B side to the "Shattered" single, and a new single from lead guitarist Keith Richards. Generally good, but good or bad, still the Stones, and so far better than the welter of nugatory bilge they waste vinyl on nowadays...