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Trackside dockers were not at all surprised to see the handsome sorrel-topped fellow open a big lead and then ease up. He won breezing. Then they looked at their watches again. In his qualifying heat for the 220-yd. dash at the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet in Durham, N.C. last week, long-legged (6 ft. 2 in., 187 Ibs.) Duke Sophomore Dave Sime (rhymes with skim) had run off a casual 0:20.1 to crack Mel Patton's seven-year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind...
...dash in 0:9.4, just a tenth of a second off the world record, and taking the 220-yd. dash in 0:20.3, another slim tenth of a second off the world record, Duke Sophomore Dave Sime won the 220-yd. low hurdles in a track meet at Durham, N.C. in 0:22.2. This time he was exactly one-tenth of a second faster than the world record...
Various Breeds. Looking for heavier, meatier animals, the rancher turned to the foreign breeds that were trickling into the country as early as 1783: first the Shorthorn (Durham), then the Hereford and the Aberdeen Angus from Britain, and from India the hardy Brahman. But no breed possessed all virtues. The Shorthorn-for a time the most popular-is massive and placid but critics say it suffers from heat and a tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal...
...University College in Leicester and in August by the University College of the Southwest in Exeter, Devonshire. The British Drama League holds two sessions, one at Chichester August 1 to 15, and the other at Alnwick, August 31 to September 9, on "Drama and the Theater." The University of Durham sponsors a training program for would-be archaeologists at Corbridge-on-Tyne in late July...
Munro will take three midfields on the trip, all veterans of last year's dark days: Fuzzy Stewart, Jim Gale, and Tom Draper; Mike Holmes, Barry Saxe, and Mike Durham; Maclay Hyde, Johnny Lane, and Tony Ostheimer...