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...lessen the fatigue of the crew going on duty. Take-offs are scheduled for around 10 a.m. to allow for a full night's sleep. (The crewmen's physical condition is attested by the fact that they must be able to run a reasonably fast 250-yd. dash and perform five chin-ups and 33 sit-ups.) The planes carried an extra pilot on the first alert flights because flight surgeons were fearful that fatigued pilots might err fatally on delicate landings after 24 hours aloft. But tests proved that they could bear up with no serious fatigue...
...Crimson scored in only five events. Elsewhere--in the dash, the hurdles, the mile, the two-mile, and, most disappointingly of all, both relays--you could have timed the varsity with a calendar...
...Eastern province. To stop him, new U.N. Military Commander General Sean McKeown flew to Mobutu's bush headquarters, extracted a promise that there would be no invasion. This was highly convenient to the Gizenga regime, for, with Mobutu's immobilization now assured, they were ready for their dash deep into Kasai. The target was Luluabourg, just as the U.N.'s tipsters had been warning. No U.N. soldier raised a hand as Gizenga's 300 men rumbled into the town and took over without a shot from the local troops, who had been thought loyal to Mobutu...
Hugh MacMillan of Princeton equalled a school record with a 6.3 clocking in the 60-yard dash. Bulldog Peter John turned in a fine 1:14.7 600 to edge Lew Hitzrot of Princeton...
Blodgett watched as Jay Luck of Yale took the 60-yard hurdles in 7.4 for Cage and Yale marks. The meet's only double winner, Luck was first in the 60-yard dash in 6.3. Frank Yeomans equaled Luck's time in a heat to tie the Harvard indoor mark...