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Last year, Heptagonal champion Army jumped out to a commanding 61-48 lead over Harvard. After three cadet halfmilers went under 1:52 to score 9 of those points, one Army runner consoled nearby Crimson men by pointing to Harvard's decisive win over Army that winter. Forty minutes later Harvard stunned everyone by eking out a 79-75 victory...
When the sheriff of Maricopa County laid aside his six-shooters and went to Washington, President Taft's cow Pauline was grazing on the White House lawn, and about the only Roosevelt anyone had ever heard of was Colonel Teddy. Dwight Eisenhower was a cadet at West Point, Lyndon Johnson was barely out of diapers, and John F. Kennedy was not even born. The world has changed almost beyond recognition since 1912, but last week, as Stanford University honored one of its most celebrated alumni with a distinguished service award, Arizona's Senator Carl Hayden, 89, was still...
...countdown to Canada's Expo 67, it was 878 days since the morning in 1964 when the first dump truck dropped the first load of fill into the St. Lawrence River off Montreal. All that seemed a long time ago as a 19-year-old Canadian Army cadet last week sprinted into the Place des Nations amphitheater and, before 5,250 invited dignitaries, handed a blazing torch to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Grinning, Pearson tipped the flame toward a gas jet in a canister, and a fire flickered up-to burn night and day during the six-month life...
...Some legislators have called for a congressional probe of the Air Force Academy honor code [March 3]. It would be more appropriate to initiate a resolution supporting the code. This would have a salutary effect on cadet morale, putting them on notice that nothing less than unequivocal honesty and personal integrity can be accepted. And some of the resolution might rub off on the authors...
Captain Wayne Andersen lost a tight duel with Army's Van Evans in the 60--their third head-to-head contest of the year. The little sophomore Cadet nosed Andersen out again in a photo-timer finish and tied Aggery Awori's meet record, set in 1963. Andersen's 6.2 time equalled his personal mark...