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...Washington University has yet to fulfill its patron's capital dream. But last week George Washington, after an 18-month culling of 130 candidates, picked a new president who yearns to do the job. He is Thomas Henry Carroll II, 46, vice president of the Ford Foundation, and holder of one of the most impressive resumes ever scrutinized by a college board of trustees...
...Donna de Varona, 13, a 102-lb minnow from Berkeley, who turned in the most stunning performance of the meet. Trailing World Record-holder Sylvia Ruuska by two strokes in the last lap of the exacting 400-meter individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle). Donna summoned a last burst of speed, overtook 18-year-old Sylvia in the final yards, broke the world record by almost...
Growth companies have not only created a new breed of management millionaires but have added some hefty figures to existing fortunes. Millionaire Laurance Rockefeller, a backer of Bos ton's Itek Corp. and its biggest stock holder, bought 259,765 shares at an average cost of $1.41. His present 195,197 shares in the company, now discussing a merger with Chicago's Seebring Corp., were worth $12 million last week. More than 1,100 Texas Instruments employees, buying stock under a special purchase plan, have spent just over a million and a half for stock now worth more...
Driven by the competition, the athletes shrugged off injury. Hammer Thrower Hal Connolly, 28, world record holder and 1956 Olympic gold-medal winner, was warming up when he pulled a muscle in the left side of his massive back. Asked Connolly coolly: "Is there a doctor here?" With a shot of novocain in his back, Connolly whirled out a throw of 212 ft. 3½ in. to finish second by 2 ft. 3½ in. to Al Hall, 25, a 205-lb. poultryman from Southington, Conn...
Swimming has always been the sport of the prodigy, from the Japanese teenagers who won in the 1932 Olympics to Australia's 17-year-old John Konrads, holder of world records from 220 to 1,650 yds. Last week it was clear that the U.S. could claim its own prodigy, who, among swimming's sprinters, may be the most prodigious ever. Steve Clark, a 16-year-old Los Altos, Calif. high school junior with a skintight crewcut and an adolescent's gangling frame of 5 ft. 11 in., 147 Ibs., flashed through the 100-meter free style...