Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transcends his gutter, recalling ancient nights. A fat little lady on the subway, purse and packages piled in her lap, eyes shut like a kitten, is holy in her thoughts...
...Baker, the favorite in two-mile, was a disappointing second behind Navy's Greg Williams. Baker ran on Williams' shoulder until the final lap but he didn't have his patented kick at the finish. Williams was clocked in 9:15.3, Baker in 9:17. Harvard's Dave Allen placed fourth...
...Richard Petty, 28: the $112,000 Daytona 500 stock-car race; at Florida's 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1966 Plymouth with a special 550-h.p. "hemi-head" engine, Petty overtook Cale Yarborough's Ford on the 113th lap, led the rest of the way at an average 160.6 m.p.h...
...breaststroke leg of the 200-yard individual medley to defeat Princeton's previously invincible Kris Brown. Corris's time, 2:04.6 was 2.4 seconds faster than he and ever swum the distance before. Brown was luckier in then 500-yard freestyle, his specialty. He moved out in the last lap and won in 5:07.7, pulling Harvard's Pete Adams to a 5:08 time, the fast-improving sophomore's best time to date...
...Three. Just as some of the experts predicted, the Chaparral spurted into the lead on the first lap. But eight laps later, Driver Hill was in the pits, complaining about a suspicious noise-gas sloshing around in the tank. Imagination turned to reality when the Chaparral's steering froze and the suspension collapsed with eleven hours still to go. One Ferrari dropped out with transmission trouble, another with a broken generator, and only four were still operating by noon on the second day. The Fords were running one-two-three and the only real challenger was the 1966 Ferrari...