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...This season, four Californians dressed in Grambling black-and-gold have run off with practically every sprint relay in sight, and their times (40 sec. for the 440, 1 min. 23.3 sec. for the 880) are the fastest in the U.S. Last week, at the Southwestern Athletic Conference meet in Houston, they romped to yet another 440-yd. victory, in 40.4 sec. Better still, they have only begun to hit their stride. Donald Owens is only a junior, but he is the captain of the team. The others-Richard Stebbins, Vernus Ragsdale and Donald Meadows-are all sophomores running...
...incoming runner slaps the baton upward into his teammate's palm, alerting him just before the pass by shouting "Hey!" In the 440-yd. relay, where even a fraction of a second is important, Williams staggers the passing points so that Stebbins and Ragsdale, the two fastest men, get to run 10 yds. farther than Meadows and Owens...
...never tested his oratory on predawn Los Angeles, but he does rise at 5:30 for a quick breakfast, then scoots off to his office for an hour or two of serious theo logical reading (he still likes Reinhold Niebuhr best) before office work begins. Kennedy heads the fastest-growing area in his church; with his "bishop's cabinet" of nine superintendents, he heads 700 ministers and 460 churches, and his lay membership has grown from 143,000 to 270,000 in twelve years. In church circles, he is admired as a first-rate fund raiser who has built...
Most big companies are busy courting architects, wooing builders and using massive advertising campaigns to persuade the home buyers to insist on their products. Makers of aluminum, the fastest-rising among the new sidings, privately ask how long steel clapboard can resist rust. The steel-clapboard men, joined by the makers of a plywood coated with plastic, imply that aluminum snaps, crackles and pops during sharp temperature changes, and that a baseball or a hailstone can leave a permanent dent. The hottest war of all is the advertising battle between the gas and electrical utility companies for the right...
Despite the three-foot loss to M.I.T. last Saturday, the varsity lightweights stand a good chance of handing Navy its first loss in four races in the Haines Cup Harvard's time in the loss last week was one of its fastest in recent years, and the varsity has continued to improve this week...