Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winning time of McCurdy's top threesome was an unimpressive 28:09, but it was good enough to rout all serious competition. A Penn runner, Bill Rich, did manage to finish fourth, but he was followed by varsity runner John D'arcy and Pete Huvelle in the fifth and sixth slots...
...First to Finish? The violence had a single objective: to undermine the government of President Romulo Betancourt, 54, and bring it down. But Betancourt is not an easy man to topple. Since taking office nearly four years ago, he has survived street riots, assassination attempts and barracks coups-the last a bloody marine corps uprising at Puerto Cabello naval base last summer. In the meantime, he has doggedly pursued a policy of reform. Under Betancourt's agrarian program, more than 3,700,000 acres of land (mostly government property) have been divided among nearly 55,000 families...
...Jewish scholars led by Hebrew Union College's Harry Orlinsky (who was the only non-Christian on the committee that produced the Revised Standard Version) have completed a new translation of the Torah, the five books of Moses, which will be published in January. They hope eventually to finish the entire Old Testament in a 20-year project that has the backing of all branches of American Judaism-and the best scholars from each...
...harriers for the first two miles, but at that point Hamlin felt the effects of a touch of flu and dropped back behind Brown's Boog. The runners remained rather loosely strung out until the four mile mark when Hamlin passed Boog and managed to hold off a fast finish by Jones for the crucial second place. Meehan...
...heavily shielded circular tunnel when the accelerator is in operation. Before the machine is started up, a crew walks the length of the tunnel, checking to see that all personnel are out of the danger area, and locking the doors to the ring as they go. When they finish, a gong sounds at five second intervals. Later, red lights flash warning, and a still more insistent gong begins to sound. When the flashers and gong cease, anyone caught inside has one minute to hit any of a dozen crash buttons located inside the tunnel. Pushing the button immediately shuts down...