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...particular, Coach Bill McCurdy will be able to tell just what he can expect from Aggrey Awori this year. Last year the former Ugandan Olympic sprinter set five University indoor records and was Heptagonal champion in both the 60-yard hurdles and the 60-yard dash...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Trackmen Enter Millrose, BAA Meets | 1/29/1964 | See Source »

Genial Shad Tubman rules Liberia through his True Whig Party and by the judicious use of jobs and "dash"-the local word for payoffs for favors-to keep the important 20,000 Americo-Liberians happy. He has also originated a unification policy intended to pass out political and economic plums to the hinterland tribes and was the first Liberian President to give them representation in the legislature. Half of the U.S. development grants of $8,600,000 a year is earmarked for teacher training and the construction of schools. Tubman quite frankly caters to the Liberian love of status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia: Uncle Shad Forever? | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...Florida A.& M.'s Bob Hayes, 21: the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., tying his own world record, over a slow, rain-soaked track at the Orange Bowl track meet. A 10-m.p.h. wind made it all unofficial, but Hayes also splashed through the 220 in 20.1 sec.-just .1 sec. off Dave Sime's world mark-even though he slowed down to avoid crashing into spectators at the finish line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scoreboard: Who Won Jan. 10, 1964 | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Aggrey Awori will run both the 50-yd. dash and the hurdles, the two events in which he made an outstanding showing in last year's BAA meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Squad to Invade Garden in K of C Meet | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...only upset came in the hurdles, but it was all in the family as the Crimson's Tony Lynch upset University record holder Aggrey Awori in 5.4 seconds. Awori copped his expected first in the dash, however, and Chris Ohiri, who outsprinted Awori last Saturday, took the broad jump...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Defeats B.U.; Meehan Sets Cage Record | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

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