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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walt Hewlett crossed the finish first without being pushed, although he was not his usual sensational self. The Harvard sophomore's time over the rolling five-mile course was 26:54.6, more than two minutes slower than the record. Crimson captain Ed Meehan was second 35 seconds behind Hewlett, but below that Harvard ran into trouble...
...city workers became ill, and one died, after cleaning out pigeon droppings from an abandoned water tower, has started strict enforcement of an anti-feeding ordinance. Fines up to $50 for violators have made the pigeon rara avis there. Authorities in Buffalo are also making a fight to the finish. They employ five fulltime exterminators, who trap pigeons wherever they can and unobtrusively kill them by wringing their necks. The exterminators are also crack marksmen and shoot pigeons downtown in the early morning...
Harvard's cross-country team begins the long, long road to the Heptagonal championships today, as they travel to New York for a relaxing triangular meet with Columbia and Penn. Despite their third place finish in last week's triangular with Brown and Cornell, the Crimson harriers are overwhelming favorites to run away with the meet at Columbia's Van Cortland Park...
Pete Wood, co-captain, and quarterback of the Eliot squad, predicted a lowscoring game but declined to guess which team would finish on top. "Both clubs pass well, and both play a pretty tough defense," Wood said. "I think the game will be decided in the defensive secondary...
...Sunday, also at M.I.T., the Crimson sailors lost the World trophy to the Coast Guard team, finish at last in a field of five...