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Miler Jim Baker faded to fourth in the homestretch of the mile but recorded a fairly fast 4:12.8 time behind Army's Jim Warner. Warner also took the two-mile with his predictable last lap sprint and Baker finished third in 9:03.3. Senior Dave Allen shocked everybody by taking fourth, only .1 seconds behind Baker...
Harvard's Tony Lynch, a favorite in the 400-meter hurdles, led the field over the last jump, but lost the dash down the homestretch and the title to dark horse Johnson of Colgate. Johnson's time 51.4; Lynch nipped Heptagonal rival Portland Gray of Navy for second place...
...over the bumps with great, bounding leaps of 45 ft. or more. Crouching low, he plunged headlong down an almost vertical precipice; his speed shot up to 60 m.p.h., his skis chattered, and the wind whistled through the ear holes in his crash helmet. Finally Zimmermann was in the homestretch, zipping through the Velodrome, a 400-yd. series of banked interconnecting turns, and on down the last, steep traverse, caroming off a final bump-and flying across the finish line in midair. Time...
...even what a helluva campaign Nixon ran-frankly pains me," said a prominent Republican in Nixon's home state of California last week. "After the performance he put on during the first two-thirds of the campaign, there was only one way for Nixon to move in the homestretch, and that was up." As politicians of all persuasions sifted the election results last week, most of them agreed on one thing: Dick Nixon came out of the Republican Convention last July clearly in the lead (the Democrats were reeling and disheartened from their own convention, and then proceeded...
...Walk, Walk, Walk." Coming into the homestretch, Yang fought to gulp down air, and began his final bid for a gold medal. His lead grew to a foot, two feet, a meter. Inch by inch, Johnson somehow gained it back. Then, with only meters to go, Johnson's legs went dead. Momentum alone carried him to the finish line a bare 1.2 sec. slower than Yang's time of 4:48.5 That was close enough: the race of his career had won Johnson the gold medal by the Olympic record score of 8,392 to Yang...