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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Harvard graduate. Mike Hauk will run in the 220-yard dash for the English, but it is unlikely that he can defeat Crimson sophomore Bill Jewett, much less Eli Mark Young. The last time Hauk performed with any consistency was in the 1965 Heptagonals, which...
...toed-in fact, he's just a little duck-footed, and it may be a good thing. If he were 100% efficient, there is no telling how fast he could run. Three times last winter Hines tied the indoor world record of 5.9 sec. in the 60-yd. dash. Last month, in the 100-yd. dash at Houston's Southwestern Athletic Conference meet, he got off to a so-so start, still was timed in 9.1 sec.-equaling the world record set by Bob Hayes in 1963. Two weeks later in Modesto, Calif., he was again a little...
...limits to human strength, speed, agility and endurance, Brutus Hamilton, coach of the U.S. Olympic team, compiled a list of what he considered to be the "ultimate" in track and field performances. No one, said Hamilton out of confidence based on long experience, would ever run the 100-yd. dash in less than 9.2 sec. or the mile in less than 3 min. 57.8 sec. No one would ever put the shot more than 62 ft., throw the discus more than 200 ft., do better than 7 ft. 1 in. in the high jump, 27 ft. in the long jump...
Steve Schoonover in the pole vault and captain Wayne Anderson in the 100-yard dash scored the other Harvard victories...
...fetish for objectivity." Reporters "divest news of its own inherent drama. They cast away the succulent flesh and offer the reader dry bones, coated with an insipid sauce of superfluous verbiage. They reject the flashing, illuminating phrase, which can make an unknown foreign statesman come vividly alive, or a dash of wit which may relieve the tedium unavoidably contained in much important news...