Word: excellency
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Backyard Hoop. A veteran of professional baseball and basketball, Father Sime has always felt a drive to teach his son his own driving urge to excel in sports. As soon as young Dave could handle a basketball there was a backyard hoop. "When I was five," he recalls, "Dad had me out hitting baseballs. Dad always told me to run faster, throw harder, hit farther. He never has been completely satisfied...
McCurdy will have the opportunity to test his two javelin throwers, Chris Angermeyer and Ed Hurley. Captain Art Siler, the team's shotputter and discus-thrower should excel in both events...
Coach Bill Brooks was pleased with the varsity's showing in the Easterns, since both Stanley and Hunter have indicated that they can excel in the Nationals two weeks hence. In fact, Stanley may win the 200-yard breast stroke in the Nationals, though he had yielded in the 100 to Navy's Bob Taft in this year's Easterns...
...main strength of the squad lies in the middle and distance runners. Bill Gillen and Dave Spinney look good in the 1000 yard run, while Jim Schlaeppi and Jack Brown deserve mention in the two mile run. Al Gordon and Dave Rosenthal and Joel Landan excel in the dashes...
...noted that it is three times that of the Soviet Union with its much larger population. It is the result of free choice. No governmental decree forces men and women into work that is repugnant to them. And because people do work that they like, they strive to excel, and so become competitive and more productive...