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William Hill, a freshman pole vaulter, won the All Harvard Cross Country Handicap with a time of 20:14:5. He was followed by Jim Holt who covered the three and one half mile coures in 20:15. Holt and Hill, were among the few novices to beat coach Bill McCurdy's cross country team, running under a five minute handicap. Eddie Meehan set a new record for the event with a time...
After a three year discontinuance, the All Harvard Cross Country Handicap will be held this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. The 3 1/2 mile run along the Charles will start at Newell Boat House. Everyone in the University is eligible...
This second novel by Author Jean (The Quick Years) Ariss, 47, a Californian with an artist-husband and five children, is flawed by her refusal to give proper names to her leading characters. As in a morality play, they are labeled the man, the woman, the father. Another seeming handicap is that the man proves to be a confirmed alcoholic who re-enacts the Lost Weekend gamut from DTs to strait jackets to the shameless cadging of money and sympathy...
...long string of racing successes (Moppies won the 1961 Marathon, the last three Miami-Nassau powerboat races), Bertram was shooting for a new Marathon record of 5 hr. 45 min. when one of his twin 310-h.p. MerCruiser outdrive engines failed halfway around. Eventual winner in the handicap race: August Nigel's 17-ft. outboard-powered runabout, at an average speed of 33 m.p.h. for the trip...
...Kozlov as premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, largest and richest of the 15 Soviet republics. Polyansky is loudly extraverted, urbanely intelligent, shrewdly aggressive-a combination of attributes matched only by Khrushchev himself. If Khrushchev should fall ill or die soon, Polyansky's youth would probably be a handicap, but if the succession struggle were to last for some time, he could well make the grade. Says one Washington official: "He is a shark, the type who would make his move only when Kozlov or somebody like him starts to founder. No matter what happens, Polyansky will come...