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...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...
...other star of the Crusader squad is hurdler, high-jumper, and broad-jumper Kevin O'Brien. O'Brien won his preliminary hurdles heat in the BAA's but lost out to Aggrey Aworl in his bid top make the finals. O'Brien's best high jump of the season has been 6 ft., 6 in., well below the range of the Crimson's Chris Pardee...
...importance of a good bond rating became especially clear last week when two separate Mississippi issues were put on the market. Bankers hardly nibbled at-the first one, a $24.6 million water-supply-district issue bearing a Baa rating. The rating made the real differ ence, Wall Streeters insisted, and not a plea by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for investors to boycott the state. The next day two Mississippi school-improvement issues totaling $8,775,000 were snapped up by two New York syndicates. Moody's (Aa) and Standard & Poor...