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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Holy Cross went for broke in the evening's first race, sending 1000 ace Bowers against Mullin and Jed Fitzgerald in the mile. Both Crimson runners pulled away on the last lap, and Mullin barely defeated Fitzgerald in 4:22.1. In the freshman mile, Eddie Meehan ran 4:22.5 for Harvard freshman indoor and freshman Cage marks. The Yardlings won their meet...
...much-touted Navy strength in the sprints either waned suddenly or failed to materialize. Bruce Hunter edged Middy ace Ashley Norfleet by half a second and tied his own pool record in the 50 yard freestyle, while both Hunter and Crimson surprise Bill Zentgraf trounced Norfleet solidly...
Crimson butterfly artist Jim Coffman also turned in an unexpectedly tremendous performance. Leading from the start Coffman took off at the seventh turn to down both Crimson ace John Pringle and Navy senior George Worthington in near record time...
...will concentrate on the diplomatic pros-but he is not unwilling to make a few political gestures. These were the names swirling around Foggy Bottom last week: Definitely slated to go to the Court of St. James's is Careerist David K. E. Bruce, who came within an ace of being named Secretary of State. Well-liked Llewellyn Thompson Jr. will remain in Moscow until the next congress of the Communist Party this autumn, when Veteran Kremlinologist Chip Bohlen is likely to undertake his second tour of duty as Ambassador to Russia. "Tommy" Thompson will then move to another...
...Nungesser and his navigator, François Coli, took off from Paris, aiming at the $25,000 Orteig Prize, which awaited the first man to fly nonstop between Paris and New York-and which was won by Charles Lindbergh for his solo flight twelve days later. The former French ace, who shot down 47 enemy aircraft in World War I and was wounded 17 times, was never seen again. Pending inspection of the instrument-panel fragment, French authorities remained skeptical that it came from L'Oiseau Blanc. But a former French flyer now living in Maine said that...