Word: jim
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Neither of Yale's high hurdlers--Jim Moore and El Evans--are exceptional performers, but the fact that Oxford and Cambridge have total bunglers in this event makes the Elis solid favorites...
Tying world records seems to be Jim Hines's fate-so far. When he was a senior at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Calif. Hines tied Jesse Owens' 31-year-old schoolboy mark of 9.4 sec. for 100 yds. That earned him a $1,200-a-year scholarship to Texas Southern. But when Hines first turned out for track at T.S.U., Coach Stan Wright was appalled: "Jim's starts were awful. He didn't concentrate...
...three years later, Wright calls Hines "the best sprinter I've ever coached." Jim himself thinks he can break four world records (100 yds., 100 meters, 220 yds. and 200 meters) this summer. He showed why last week when, on a slow track at the Los Angeles Coliseum, he beat San Jose State's Tommie Smith, the 220-yd. world recordholder (at 20 sec. flat) by three yards...
...LIFE OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON by Jim Bishop. 274 pages. Random House...
...reforming London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy, Lincoln and-now-Lyndon Baines Johnson, carries the device too far. For eleven days, Bishop tagged the President's heels-even into the flowered fields of the L.BJ. ranch-notebook at the ready for the drop...