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...spectacular in taking the 600 yard run and the 100 yard run. In both events, he hung behind the leader until late in the race, and then sprinted past for the victory. Clayton, Mark Connolly, and a B. C. runner were matched pace for pace until the last lap of the 1000. Clayton then moved smoothly out for first place in 2:15.9. Connolly was third...
Spengler finished less than half a second ahead of John Quirk in the mile, and later held Jeff Brokaw off for a narrow victory in the two mile. Spengler grabbed a short lead on the second lap of the two mile, with Brokaw shadowing him all the way and a B. C. runner just a stride further back. Brokaw held onto second place, and the final lap saw the two Crimson distance men sprint home one step apart...
...long transition, and now I've experienced the harmful aftereffects. So I was encouraged some-what yesterday at Jordan's when some six-year-old flatly refused to go up and sit in Santa's lap. The thing about department store Santas is that they take this reluctance as an affront to their personal appeal. So this Santa engaged the boy in a little heckling. "I think you're scared," he told...
...share the Nixon-Agnew philosophy," says Kilpatrick, "but I don't sit on anybody's lap. I've opposed the President on lots of issues." Neither Nixon nor Agnew seems to mind Kilpatrick's opposition: the President has invited him to dinner and Sunday prayers and the Vice President once treated him to a lunch, "where we just yakked. He also made polite noises about my writing...
Despite his role as lively guide, Bloodworth, by a kind of Oriental indirection, gets his major points across. He makes it unmistakably clear that the one goal all Southeast Asian countries share is independence-merdeka in Malay, doc lap in Vietnamese. Big Brother is not wanted, whether he is American, Russian or Chinese...