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Simultaneously the Civilization of India materializes in the guise of Soc Sci 116, students of Aristophanes savor Greek 105a, and dilettantes carefully avoid the intricacies of wave phenomena unwound in Physics 112a. Juan Marichal caps this tour de force of the liberal arts with History 175b, the intellectual history of Latin America, while Professor Gleason shows "how the foundations of real variable theory can be based on naive set theory in Math...
Full of beans a top a San Francisco podium, Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 67, unwound a 96-piece orchestra in his own three-minute baroque version of The Twist. The white-maned maestro played the score "tempo a la Chubby Checker" after listening to one of the tubby twister's records and checking it with a metronome. Afterward, at a local nightclub to gyre and gimbal a bit himself, Fiedler adjudged the dance craze: "It's authentic primitive Americana, not from Siberia or Laos, I don't think it's physically unattractive either...
...First came the strident buildup: "The United States and its allies are fanning up the arms race . . . preparing a new world holocaust while the Soviet government strives for peace. The Soviet Union considers it its duty to take all necessary measures...'' Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided to start testing its nuclear weapons again. Just 49 hours later, a brilliant flash lit the bleak plains of Central Asia, and a mighty bang echoed for miles...
This time, before Dick Lewis could get a physician, the unexpectant mother was in the third stage of labor, in their bedroom. Lewis had never delivered a baby, but he had trained rescue squads and had often shown a childbirth film. He unwound the cord from the baby's neck, laid out mother and child (a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy) side by side, .then called one of the ambulance units he had trained. An attendant cut the cord...
...haven't gotten unwound yet," coach Charles Arthur commented after yesterday's practice. "I have made some adjustments, but the team is not too strong...