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...slip of paper clenched tightly in his fist. Scrawled on the paper was a series of digits: 1:02, 2:04, 3:09, 4:14, 5:19, 6:24, 7:29, 8:31. These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg...
...breaststroke the Tigers have Gardiner Green, former EISL champion and holder of a 2:17.1 time-slightly better than Pringle's own Harvard record of 2:17.8. The race between the two top swimmers could well produce one of the most exciting contests in the League this year...
...yard freestyle, University record-holder Dave Abramson knocked seven-tenths of a second off his pool record in that event with a time of 1:55.0. Ed Seaston took a third in the event...
...keyboard, transmitting it to the computer. The computer can handle up to 24 check queries simultaneously, and flashes back its answers on a closed circuit television screen. A warning goes up whenever the driver's license has been reported lost or stolen, and whenever the license holder has been reported for bouncing checks or has tried to pass a suspiciously large number of checks within recent days...
...would give most economists the willies, but it fascinates Fritz Mach-lup (pronounced mock-loop), holder of Princeton's Walker professorship of economics and international finance. A onetime Austrian businessman (in cardboard). Economist Machlup, 60, came to the U.S. in 1933, taught for years at Johns Hopkins, and is now president of the American Association of University Professors...