Word: baa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BAA meet is a bit ill-timed for Harvard, coming four days before the end of exam period. And that is too bad. The meet could provide the kind of competition many men on the team really need--and haven't had since before Christmas vacation...
...freshman one-mile relay team--composed of John Dugan, Tom Downer, Roy Shaw, and Keith Colburn--was Harvard's only winner in the K of C's. The same four runners stand a good chance in the BAA meet Saturday...
...Vitus' Dance and the Crimson would still be favored over Dartmouth. But in the next year few weeks, the squad will be meeting far stiffer competition. The GBC meet includes not only Hemery (second in the NCAA high hurdles indoors and second to Tom Farrell in the indoor BAA 600), but also Boston College's 200-foot hammer thrower, John Flore and Northeastern distance runner Dave Dunsky...
Owing to some genetic magic, the Adamses never produced black sheep, though there were times when the family anxiously expected Charles Francis Jr. to baa. Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. Since no other Adams had ever been a soldier, Charles Francis Sr., Lincoln's Minister to the Court of St. James's, concluded that there was a defect in his son's character. More over, on his return from the war, Charles...
Navy pole vaulter Mike Brown, who has cleared 16 feet, is the meet's closest thing to a sure winner. Teammate Courtland Gray, who beat Elias Gilbert, Ralph Boston, and Aggrey Awori to win the BAA high hurdles, ranks a close second among the solid favorites...