Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covering the half-miles in 2:05 and jogging the laps in between at nearly the same speed) that the exhausted Elis were soon reduced to a sort of relay system: one runner staying with Gilligan while the other rested. After watching Gilligan's exhibition, Harvard two-miler Dyke Benjamin gritted his teeth and gave the Oxford performer something to think about by turning in eight quartermiles under 60.0, two of them faster than his previous personal best...
...should win easily as should Joe Clayton of Cambridge, a 202ft. javelin thrower. Oxford's David Churchill, who has "longjumped" (broadjumped) 23 ft. 6 in., should take his event and Gilligan, an 8:84 two-miler, will win if he can hold off a determined Benjamin. Oxford's Donald Smith, who has done a 1:49.4 880 would be the favorite if he were in peak condition, but he is not. Yale's Tommy Carroll should triumph here...
...logician's mind to the problems of heavy industry. Reserved in manner, quiet in speech, he runs Big Steel's $3.7 billion empire and its 230,000 employees with an almost academic air. "Blough," says one steelman, "is a real, warm, likable IBM machine." Unlike former Chairman Benjamin Fairless, who thought one of the ways to labor peace was to tour plants with Union Boss David McDonald, Blough believes in separation of management and labor. Grouses one union leader: "Blough is a man you don't get to know much about. He stays in his ivory tower...
...Force Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., 46, son of the Army's first Negro general officer, was nominated by Dwight Eisenhower for promotion to two-star rank. As a major general, poker-backed West Pointer Davis, now deputy chief of staff at Air Force advance headquarters in West Germany, would become the highest-ranking Negro in U.S. armed forces annals...
...Dyke Benjamin scored four of the varsity's 10 3/4 points with a second-place effort in the two-mile. Benamin went out to an early lead and was ahead by more than 30 yards after the first mile. But Penn State's Dick Engelbrink, the pre-race favorite, caught Benjamin at the start of the seventh lap and won easily after fighting off one last desperate challenge by the Crimson...