Word: aceing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first for the Crimson after fighting Dartmouth's tabled Tom Laris step for step for almost the entire five-mile distance. Mullin's time was 25:47, by far his best performance of the year. After two miles, Mullin led Laris by two yards, but Laris overhauled the Crimson ace a mile further along...
Ravenel's statistics have never been very impressive; his passing record looks unexciting beside that of a quarterback like Stanford's Dick Norman. Harvard's ace said he notices this, too. "I read at the end of the season how so-and-so has completed so many passes for so many yards, and then I look at my own statistics, and they're not so good. It bothers me not a whit. As dence in me. I don't want to be an All-American--I'm not that silly...
...pack left the Cornell golf course and went into the woods, Mullin and Brockman were fighting for the lead, but the Cornell ace came out of the trees with a slight edge. Brockman continued to increase his margin and won going away by 50 yards. Mullin had to fight off a determined challenge by Diegnan to take second by 15 yards...
...Africa, the Soviets moved swiftly once colonial rule began to crumble. Overnight Russia's rulers created in Moscow a mammoth African research center headed by the Soviet Union's top African expert, Professor Ivan Potekhin. Top Soviet diplomatic talent was rushed to Africa, including Middle East Ace Daniel Solod, who is Moscow's Ambassador to Guinea, and hard-driving Ambassador to Congo Mikhail Yakovlev, whose clever footwork has gained him seemingly unrestricted access to Patrice Lumumba's office. Soviet diplomats have cleared the way for such projects as the African student scheme under which, last week...
...from the Farmer. The liberal New York Post was almost inevitably reminded of a quip made by Humorist Goodman Ace: "Public opinion polls reach everyone in America, from the farmer in his field right up to the President of the United States, Thomas E. Dewey." But to Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, Gallup's 1960 post-convention poll was downright sinister. The polls, cried Gore, are "almost meaningless and in many instances misleading," but they still have an "entirely unjustified" influence on elections. With that, Gore hinted at an investigation of the pollsters by the Senate Privileges...