Word: anchorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real duel developed between Harvard and Navy, and it wasn't decided until the last event -- the mile relay. The Crimson took a third there when Army's anchor man dropped the baton, and Harvard edged the Middies out by one point over...
Lanky freshman Jim Voleman looked up at the high jump bar set at 6 ft. 4 in--higher than he had ever jumped in his life. Seconds before, Keith Colburn had streaked past the jump pit on his way to a victory on the anchor leg of the two-mile relay. That win put Harvard just a point and a half behind Princeton...
...Then, less than an hour later he won his second event of the day, the 1000. This time he smashed his own freshman mark by coasting across the line in 2:13.8. Finally, with a half hour's rest, he reeled off a 1:55 half-mile to anchor the victorious two-mile relay squad...
...mile relay is another story. No one can catch Yale's Mark Young, who will probably anchor the Elis' quartet. If Young is ready to go, and if the whole meet rides on the mile relay, it will mean trouble...
...tries, like a daily newsmagazine, to encompass all human activity. The show did not shake down overnight, though, as film clips from a nostalgic anniversary program last week made embarrassingly evident. For the first nine years, Dave Garroway was host, or rather referee. Engineers, visible from behind the anchor desks, used to wave to their wives; J. Fred Muggs, the rubber-pantsed chimp, ran amuck on daily cue; publicists seemed to own the show, particularly if they were pushing gimmicky toys or beauty queens. Then Newsman John Chancellor (now director of the Voice of America) took over...