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...Zoology Professor H. W. Lissmann of Cambridge, England, a friend in West Africa sent a small, odd fish with the impressive name Gymnarchus niloticus. It swam forward and backward with equal facility, and it carried a mysterious object m its fingerlike tail. Professor Lissmann put the fish in an aquarium, and admired its skill in avoiding obstacles even when swimming backward. The fish's strange tail, he thought, seemed to be acting like a natural radar...
...test his hunch, Lissmann touched the water with two electrodes connected with an oscillograph. When the two-way fish swam near, a series of regular electrial pulses showed on the oscillograph een. Then Lissmann dipped ends of a copper wire into .the aquarium. The little fish fled in terror, its radar apparently mistaking the wire for a bigger and hostile fash. It also fled from a wire carrying artificial electric pulses. But when Professor Lissmann fed its own pulses back into the water, the fish attacked the electrodes presumably taking them for a rival of its own species...
...Cambridge, Mass., Yale Swimmer John Marshall, a world record in the 440-yd. freestyle. Marshall's time: 4:31, 2/10 of a second under his own year-old record. Against 36 Eastern colleges the Yale team swam off with eight of 14 titles. ¶ At Chicago, Don Gehrmann, the Banker's Mile in 4:09.7, over FBI-man Fred Wilt. The show-stopper in the Chicago Daily News relays: the Rev. Bob Richards' pole-vault of 15 ft. 4¾ in., his highest yet, but still three inches short of Cornelius Warmerdam's world record...
...think. Not until hours later did he learn that the wandering crow had lured him to the plant of the Barnabas Fireworks Co. He fell backwards off the log into the mud, fled across the creek, dropped his rifle, yanked off his shoes, dived into the Hackensack River and swam it like a beaver heading for a woodyard. As he emerged dripping, on the other side, he thought, dazedly, that he ought to call the fire department. This was unnecessary. Windows had been broken and the populace jolted for miles around; the fire departments of Pearl River, Sparkill, Orangeburg, Park...
...Gold Coasters beat Lowell, 89-9, and defeated Leverett 27-21: Kirkland downed Winthrop, 26-22, Loverett out-swam the Bellboys 42-8, and Eliot forfeited its meets with Kirkland and Winthrop, while Dudley did the same with Dunster...