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...McCurdy pressed a tired Eddie Meehan into service in the two mile, and Meehan stumbled to a meet-clinching third place. Then Ogden ran an inspired :49.0 lap on the mile relay to lead the team to second place, and Harvard had won by three points...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Track Team Barely Cops G.B.I.; Ogden Stars in Win Over B.C. | 5/9/1963 | See Source »

...open, airy Prime Minister's residence, allows the 70 children of his servants the run of the house; visiting diplomats are often surprised during a conference to see a servant's child wander into the sitting room and climb up onto the Tunku's lap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: The Man Who | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...years past, Chevy's Corvette sports car could hardly stay on the same track with a serious-minded Ferrari. But the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray is new from its independent rear suspension to its fastback body shell. On a casual test lap, a Sting Ray zipped around the twisting, 5.2-mile Sebring course in 3 min. 12 sec. -beating the official track record set by Ferrari last year. Then came Ford with the hybrid AC Cobras, developed by ex-racer Carroll Shelby, with a light British body hiding a huge 350-h.p. Ford engine. The Cobras claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Another for the Monster | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

...ninth act, Sam has died, and Nina sinks gratefully into a twilight-sleepy love offered by "dear old Charlie" Marsden (William Prince), a desexed lap dog who has trotted devotedly in Nina's shadow since she was a girl. Obviously, O'Neill thought that his characters had richly exhausted life, but the prevailing impression left by the play is that life has thoroughly exhausted them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: More Curio Than Classic | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...Steve Clark and Mike Austin swept the 50-yard freestyle in 21.5 for another Eastern mark, and the Bulldog medley relay team touched out Princeton to win in 3:40.7. Austin won that race for the Yalies by making up a huge deficit with a 47.0 freestyle anchor lap...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Pringle Sets Eastern Meet Medley Mark | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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