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Boston now uses some of the oldest and shabbiest school buildings in the country. They are especially concentrated in the Negro ghetto, where school population is growing fastest...
Adams also swam the third leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay. Harvard qualified for the finals yesterday afternoon, breaking another record with a 3:15.7 performance. Adams hung up his fastest 100-yard split, 48.5 seconds. Jim Seubold led off in 50.4 seconds, a time he should lower in the finals against Yale and Navy. Phil Chase followed in 48.4 seconds, finally reaching the stardom long predicted for him Bill Shrout anchored the quarter--which avenged losses to Army and Princeton--in 48.4 seconds...
Neville Hayes swam his fastest time of the year (1:57.6) but was unable to beat North Carolina's Olympian Phil Riker in the 200-yard butterfly. Hayes did not leave the starting blocks until the other finalists hit the water, but he nearly caught Riker midway through the race. However, Riker had too much left and held off a tired Hayes to win by two feet 1:56.9. It was a heartbreaker. Hayes, despite his poor start, was still able to hold off Yale's Bill Mettler for the second race in a row. It was Hayes' first loss...
...three networks will provide live coverage of the Gemini 8 launch scheduled for Tuesday, March 15, and, if all goes as planned, will follow the three-day mission with films of the farthest and fastest walk in history-one and a half times around the world...
Another Crimson breaststroker, junior Bob Corris, will be a contender in the 200-yard event. He's got some formidable competition in Yale's Mike Buckley, whose 2:12.9 is the fastest time in the East this winter and some 2.8 seconds faster than the University record which Corris set last week. The rapidly improving Corris, who placed fifth in the event last year, is undefeated in dual competition and has not been really pressed all year. A showdown with Buckley, planned for the Yale meet last Saturday, was postponed because of the Yalie's illness...