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...things to be like home. He wants to see other children, sick or well, and he wants to be seen. So although virtually all the new children's hospital beds are on the two-to-a-room plan, the rooms themselves are divided by glass walls above a three-foot dado. If the kids make faces at each other through the glass, that is fine with today's permissive doctors. For nursing or medical privacy, curtains are drawn to cover the glass...
Despite the three-foot loss to M.I.T. last Saturday, the varsity lightweights stand a good chance of handing Navy its first loss in four races in the Haines Cup Harvard's time in the loss last week was one of its fastest in recent years, and the varsity has continued to improve this week...
King Zor, Glass's most expensive toy this year, is a terrifying-looking, three-foot plastic dinosaur. Six plastic "prehistoric rocks" are loaded into Zor's back. The child then fires a dart gun at a red target on the beast's tail; a bull's-eye causes Zor to lunge toward the nursery-school St. George and launch one of his projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better...
...sharp Cornell lightweight crew snatched a three-foot victory from the Crimson varsity in the last five strokes of an exciting but disappointing finish Saturday at Ithaca. Penn came in third in the contest. The winning time was 6:56 minutes...
...killed eleven cops and 98 Algerians. As a countermeasure the government clamped a 7 p.m. curfew on the Algerian cafes, where F.L.N. leaders hang out. Algerians also were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew. Algerians, who theoretically enjoy the same civil rights as Frenchmen, protested that they were subjected to a form of apartheid as virulent as South Africa's-and seizing on that mood...