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Harvard will now rely on freshman Borris Holmes or junior Jerry Hall at 150. Lee feels they both have talent but may not withstand the season's demands. "A wrestler has to be outstanding to win consistently at these lower weights, and Cuyler was," Lee said. "Holmes is good, but he may be discouraged by the prospects of losing. Hall did not wrestle last winter and still has to prove his determination to stick with...
Pushing Briggs for the top spot on the ladder will be Fish, the team's captain. Fish's success rests on his great racquetwork and his ability to withstand pressure. Barnaby feels that Fish could become a top player if he improves his speed on the court...
...were dead; her industrial plant was devastated. Why did America, relatively unscathed and industrially strong, shudder at its nightmare vision of Russian boots trampling Western Europe? Ulam offers two explanations. Americans were overcompensating for their former low estimation of the Russians--no one had thought the U.S.S.R. could long withstand the Nazi onslaught. And the West felt guilty. The Soviet Union had borne the brunt of the German attack. The British and Americans didn't want to believe that the war damage had been great enough to cripple the Russian nation. By not recognizing the extent of the damage...
...city that even Scheherazade could never have imagined: a 160-acre oasis studded with three huge royal "tents" and 59 lesser ones arranged in a star pattern. The tents were more or less permanent structures of synthetic fabric, with cement bases and wooden partitions; they were built to withstand fire, rot, and winds of up to 70 m.p.h. Decorated by Jansen of Paris, the firm that helped Jacqueline Kennedy redo the White House, the tents were completely air-conditioned and furnished with Baccarat crystal, Ceralene Limoges china and Porthault linens...
...experiment, to be sure, was performed only in the artificial environment of the test tube. But if the results withstand the scrutiny of further testing, the researchers are convinced that their experiment will provide new insights into the workings of the genes. Even more important, it may offer effective means of correcting defects in the human body. Working toward that goal, the NIH scientists disclosed at week's end that they are already attempting the same kind of genetic transplant with a laboratory animal...