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Director Jim Walker has 74 lettermen returning, including all but one of his soloists from last year. Approximately 60 freshman will be making their first attempt in band formations. The formations are tricky--to figure out. But the effort is usually worth it as each one has a hidden meaning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famed Harvard Band Makes Debut Today | 9/29/1962 | See Source »

Next question: Who would boss the tricky U.N. interim administration? First choice of both sides was patient, professional Ellsworth Bunker, 68, who had vainly hoped to go back and relax on his Vermont farm after the tedious, five-month negotiations.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Guinea: Toward West Irian | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

>- Dr. Wells (1892-1954) received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in1919, joined the Bureau of Standards in 1930 as a mining production chemist. He lived a full and active life using both of his "hands" for writing, swimming, smoking and playing golf. At his job he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 17, 1962 | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

Hard by the Firth of Clyde, the 84-year-old Troon course has the teeth of a tiger and the temperament of a capricious shrew. It was at Troon in the 1923 British Open that 21-year-old Gene Sarazen, cocky 1922 U.S. Open champion, teed off into a howling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Taming the Shrew | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

First countermeasure tried by the fishes' human allies was electrical barriers across stream mouths to keep mature lampreys from swimming upstream to spawn. But many streams were already packed with growing larvae from lamprey eggs, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Department of Fisheries decid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Victory on the Lakes | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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