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Excitement was high as the gun sounded for the sweepstakes. Little Joe, with ebony-skinned Flash Gordon up, took a clumping lead at a dizzy 15 m.p.h. He had the championship almost won when instinct told him to make a dash for the feed box. This enabled rawboned Pippin, Jockey Cal (for Carroll County) up, to claim title as the fastest mule in the Delta country...
With results of the rope-climb, net-descent, 100 yard dash, and obstacle course already turned in, head coach Mikkola is waiting only for the cross country race before tabulating the final scores and awarding prizes to the first nine...
...British cruiser and four destroyers caught the convoy, sank all seven vessels. Another convoy, sneaking away from Brittany, sighted the British force, turned and sneaked back to Saint-Nazaire, perhaps to try the dash to Bordeaux another time...
They had knocked the Germans off balance with a solid armored punch, had chewed up the best part of six divisions and had at least two others backtracking. Best of all, they were on the move, and they moved with dash and boldness, with a murderous air support that made hash of German units on the roads...
Starting off with a 26-foot rope climb, the test will last for the better part of a week and will include, in addition to the rope climb, a landing not descent, 100 yard dash, 100 yard obstacle course--"The Guadalcanal Special,"--and lastly, a 3.7 mile cross-country jaunt along the river bank. The "Special," feature of this endurance test, is a straight sprint over walls, ditches, and sandtraps, a submarine dive, and finally zig-zagging through a maze of sandtraps and runways...