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Against Cornell, the team started out by forfeiting five points because of an injury suffered by J. C. Von Helms the night before during practice in Syracuse. With Von Helms unable to wrestle at 147, the Crimson was still able to collect 13 points on wins by Doub, Peirera, and Paul Schnitz, and a draw by Fastov...
Freshman Dean von Stade noted that trend in extracurricular activities. The girls are taking over more," he added...
According to Von Hoerner's calculators, there are perhaps only ten civilized communities within 1,000 light-years of the earth. But Von Hoerner is convinced (hat if some highly cultured creatures are actually trying to communicate across interstellar space, earth's astronomers could, by concerted effort, detect and interpret the incoming messages...
Other planets, reasons Von Hoerner, almost certainly have been through cycles of self-destruction, and would have some thing to say about their experience. On such planets, science and technology were probably encouraged by a fight for supremacy and a desire for an easy life. In many cases, says the astronomer, scientific warfare surely brought destruction, or the soft life made possible by technology led to physical or mental degeneration. As a result, some extraterrestrial civilizations may have destroyed themselves completely, while others killed off only the higher types of life, permitting new and later civilizations to evolve from...
...Von Hoerner believes that the earth's young civilization is now approaching its fast great crisis because of its newfound powers of self-destruction. He feels that man's best hope of avoiding disaster is to listen hard for radioed advice. Far out in starry space, perhaps, is an old, wise civilization that has survived many crises and is trying to warn the callow earth against the mistakes of its own youth...