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...middle-distance runner of all time. Last month in Bakersfield, Calif., Ryun lowered his own world record for the mile to 3 min. 51.1 sec. Two weeks ago in Los Angeles, he zipped through 1,500 meters-120 yds. short of a mile-in 3 min. 31.1 sec., to clip 2½ sec. off the seven-year-old mark set by Australia's Herb Elliott. Experts estimate that Ryun's time for 1,500 meters is the equivalent of a 3-min. 48.5-sec. mile...
...amused by Reader el-Manssour's letter [June 9] questioning the superiority of the Israeli army. I hope you will send me his address so I may clip his letter and mail it to him-between two slices of matzoth for greater palatability...
...True. Even its advocates concede that some M-16 failures may result from a weak spring in the magazine. Though the M-16 clip can hold up to 21 rounds, Marine Corps Commandant Wallace Greene recommends loads of no more than "17 or 18 rounds." Some Marines have used an old World War II trick to speed up reloading: they tape two magazines together upside down; after one magazine is burnt out, it can be swiftly inverted and the other inserted. The added weight of the second magazine, however, is enough to draw the lip of the first magazine...
...Viet Nam-whether from Hanoi or Washington, Moscow or Saigon-to be biased, polemical, inaccurate or incendiary, this volume will prove a purgative historical point. Compiled in 1860 from the pages of Tory, Whig and British newspapers and out of print for nearly 100 years, it is a clip-book of reportage and editorials written during America's own, distinctly pre-Maoist "war for national liberation...
Harvard's attack continued at the awesome clip it discovered in Wednesday's 11-2 pounding of Northeastern. The Crimson collected 22 hits, including five triples...