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...Dewey Hickman will probably battle with MIT, B.C., and Tufts entries for first in the high hurdles, while the intermediates appear wide open. Harvard's lack of depth starts to show in the distances, where the Crimson's hopes rest on Bob Seals in the mile. Fred Linsk in the three-mile, Mike Koerner in the six-mile, and Rick Rojas in the steeplechase...
...Most assuredly, in the event of a bust at Massachusetts Hall, there will be an interruption in participation by the black members in the track program. George Yeadon Dewey Hickman Stanley Pohill Robert Clayton Baylee Reid Kevin Benjamin Leon E. Sharpe Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace Frederick Nance
Ultimately, six blacks--Dewey Hickman, Baylee Reid, Bob Clayton, Kevin Benjamin, Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace, George Yeadon and Frederick Nance--decided to leave the squad indefinitely, and issued a statement to that effect...
...Vanderpool-Wallace won the broadjump. Adrian Tew took the javelin, and Rich Gilbane and Howie Kennan placed a surprising 2-3 to Tiger Carl Barisich in the discus. Then Ted DcMars and Jay Hughes took second and third in both the shot and hammer, and when Baylee Reid and Dewey Hickman won the 100 and 120 hurdles, it appeared as though the Crimson could hang on, if only it could realize its potential in the last five events...
Brash, bold and bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald...