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McCurdy feels Harvard has the advantage in the field events: it's at a disadvantage in the running events, he said. Army should win the first two places, and possibly the third, in the 60-yard dash. The cadets are strong in the 600-yard and 1000-yard runs, where Harvard has suffered injuries to Nick Leone and Rick Melvoin. The hurdles should be close with junior Dewey Hickman and senior Del Maughan running for the Crimson...
McCurdy experimented with his runners to try to find the best combination of his talent. Harvard had only one double-winner, Ed Baskauskas, who won the pole vault and the high jump. B.U. also had a double-winner, Ford Dennis, who won the broad jump and the 60-yard dash, setting a new bubble record of 6.1 seconds...
...extensive background in private practice, interrupted by three years as Governor William Scranton's secretary of public welfare. Lawyers admire both his integrity and his legal acumen. Like many of the Nixon nominees, he is a tough law-and-order man but, adds Georgetown University Law Professor Samuel Dash, he is also "a sensitive human being...
Szeryng brings it all off with dash and finesse, but without quite removing the suspicion that there must have seemed more to it when Paganini played it. "The work," he says, "makes me feel like I'm jetting from heaven to hell at incredible speed." It must be reported, however, that when he performed it in public recently at London's Royal Festival Hall, the devil did not appear beside...
...Derek Sanderson won the National Hockey League's Rookie of the Year honors in 1968, Woolf schooled the then 21year-old high-school dropout in the social graces, got him a TV talk show, won him a salary increase from $14,000 to $50,000 and had him dash off an as-told-to autobiography, I've Got To Be Me. "An athlete finds glory only for a few years," says Woolf. "His body is his skill, and it can depreciate very fast. My job is to see that he gets what he's worth and learns...