Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school's entire total of 47 points at the N.A.I.A. championships, was shaded by only 2 points by Texas Southern's title-winning track team. Boston, who generally has to wait until Tennessee State's girls (most notably Olympic Triple Gold Medal Winner Wilma Rudolph) finish training before he can use the track, and gets up at 6 a.m. on Sundays to work out, set two world broad-jump marks this season: indoors, with a 26 ft. 6-in. leap; outdoors, with a 27-ft. ½in. effort...
...turned the airstrip into a profitable investment. Clint Jr. lives more modestly for the moment. He, his wife and four children have a three-bedroom house in an upper-middle-class Dallas neighborhood-but that is only because it has taken him seven years (and another to go) to finish his dream house. A huge ranch house set on 25 acres, it is equipped with an electronic bar that mixes drinks to order ("I don't care for tending bar"), an elaborate intercom system (designed by Clint Jr.), and a swimming pool that could float the Queen Mary...
...that a blowout was imminent. With only ten miles to go. Sachs gave up, conceded the lead to Foyt and pulled into the pits for a tire change. "There was too much canvas showing," he said philosophically. "Being second is better than being dead." Winner Foyt flashed across the finish line 9 sec. in front. The lucky veteran, who drove his first racing car (an 18-m.p.h. midget) when he was but three years old, had averaged 139.130 m.p.h. to set a new record and earn the winner's check of $117,975-richest of any Memorial Day drive...
Wasted Talent. But abuses of the contract system are common to missilemakers, too. Many companies combine hard sell with soft performance, put their best technical talent to drawing up new contract proposals and use lesser lights to finish the work they actually get. One engineer in the missile field complains that 75% of his time is spent designing equipment for which another company ultimately gets the contract...
According to Brown, the proposal is designed to relieve the congestion in the second half of senior year, when students must finish theses by April 1, take Honors hour exams after spring vacation, and prepare for General Examinations the first week...