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Harvard's track team opens its indoor season against B.U. in Briggs Cage tonight, boasting the same intimidating strength in the long distance and weight events that carried it to an undefeated dual meet record and second places in the Heptagonals and IC4A's last year...
Benka will receive support from sophomore Ed Nosal and seniors Charlie Ajootian and Bruce Hedendal. All three double in the 35-pound weight throw, and Nosal and Ajootian should make it another of Harvard's strongest events...
Dean Sheppard (145), Bart Harvey or Mark Faller (160), and Tony Rayner (177) are the other sophomore starters. Rayner, who normally competes at 167, will be replacing John Irmie at the heavier weight. Irmie, whom Lee considered the standout among the freshmen last year, injured a knee two weeks ago and though recovered, is now overweight due to the layoff. Franklin & Marshall's regular 177-pounder, however, is also injured...
...Moone, written by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandoff, and published in 1638, offered a hero who was carried to his destination on a frail raft pulled by swans. Unaware of the vacuum in space, the traveler had no difficulty breathing on the trip, but he did find that his weight lessened as he left the earth. That remarkable scientific insight by Godwin preceded Newton's discovery of the laws of gravity by many years...
...traditional radical approach to this situation is the Marxist one of plumping for the aim of mobilizing these workers to overwhelm the power of the Rich by sheer weight of numbers. This was to be done by explaining to the workers that their interests were not being looked after in the prevailing state of affairs, which realization supposedly would so enrage the working class that they would do something about redressing the situation...