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With Jeff Coolidge and Dough Manchester both in the box halfway through the period, the Bruins socked in two goals to give them a 3 to 2 lead. The margin held until the period's end, and despite a brilliant fight by Harvard in the final session, the Bruins ended up out in front...
...Castle. Reid and Barry, along with a friend, got out of Oflag VII C all right, completely outsmarting their German keepers by using the classic tunnel scheme. Theirs was one of the first World War II escapes on record, and almost everything about it worked fine. They had got halfway to Yugoslavia when they were surrounded by a patrol. The next day they were back in Oflag VII C again...
...order flashed from Washington to U.S. embassies halfway around the world: stop the Wiima. A grimy Finnish tanker loaded at the Rumanian oil port of Constantsa the Wiima was en route for Red China with 7,000 tons of aviation kerosene-enough fuel to give Communist MIG jets over 5,000 flying hours...
...brigade in Korea has suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Chinese Reds, could not help either. An international convention guarantees free transit. At Suez it was the same: Britons and Egyptians watched but did nothing as the tanker slipped away. This week, the Wiima was halfway across the Indian Ocean, on course for the China coast. The only remaining chance of stopping her legally lay with Nationalist China's navy, which claims to be blockading the Communist mainland. But old China hands doubt that the tanker can be stopped unless U.S. Seventh Fleet airplanes join...
...while last week it looked like the old Wanamaker story. Don Gehrmann was out in front at the halfway mark, with Wilt dogging his heels. But from there on, the crowd kept its eyes on Dwyer, the Villanova University senior who had run the two oldtimers into the ground three times before this season. At the three-quarter mark (3:07.5), Dwyer was in the lead, lost it in the final backstretch to Brown University's surprising Walt Molyneux, then came on with a rush for the tape, beating Molyneux by three yards in a fine 4:08.2, fourth...