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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy on his hapless rivals. "Why, just yesterday," he crowed, "I rolled a 629 in a three-game practice series." Tennis's Rod Laver easily won the table-tennis finals, and Hayes used his long legs to run off with first-place honors in the 100-yd. dash with a tortoise-like clocking of 11.5 seconds. After the first day of competition, though, the leader was Auto Racer Peter Revson. Winner of both the swimming and tennis events, the millionaire sportsman candidly allowed that he was in it for the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ten for the Show | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...Snow, the boy-wonder producer in the musical Say, Darling. "I'm trying to acquire the rights to a new book that I think will make a great musical," went one of his lines. "It's an eyewitness account of Sir Edmund Hillary's dash to the South Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Princely Odds | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

There were, however, some bright spots for Harvard. Nick Leone won the 600-yd. dash in a very good time of 1:10.5, on the relatively slow, flat tartan 220 yd. oval at Cornell. Leone had been bothered by minor injuries all week in practice but came up with what McCurdy termed an "outstanding effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middies Easily Win First Heptagonal Crown; Harvard Thinclads Finish Disappointing 3rd | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

...performance by Cornell's Jim Leonard. Mel Embree jumped 6 ft. 8 in. to take a strong second in the high jump while Pole-vaulter Jim Kleiger remained undefeated in the event with a winning jump of 16 ft. Baylee Reid surprised in the 60-yd. dash after reaching the finals through several photo-finish heats and semis, and took an eventual fifth. Dewey Hickman added a third in the high hurdles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Middies Easily Win First Heptagonal Crown; Harvard Thinclads Finish Disappointing 3rd | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

Dewey Hickman continued his string of victories in the 60-yd. high hurdles with a winning time of 7.4, while Baylee Reid beat a good sprint field in the 60-yd. dash with a 6.3 performance with three Tigers well back in second through fourth places...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Track Team Grabs Big Three Title; Crimson Wins 12 of 14 Events at Yale | 2/20/1973 | See Source »

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