Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After burning out his competition with two blazing, 59-sec. middle laps, the University of Oregon's Dyrol Burleson slipped to 59.4 sec. in the final lap, still managed a 3-min. 57.6-sec. mile at Eugene, Ore.-fastest ever by a U.S. miler. Said Burleson afterward: "I think I could have cut three seconds off the last lap if I'd had someone to hang on to. When I get ahead, I get lazy...
Although they won on their strength in the field events, the most spectacular moments of the day came for the Crimson on the track. The mile was the most unexpected Harvard victory; a highly partisan crowd, jubilant when Mark Mullin passed Dartmouth's Tom Laris on the third lap, went wild as Jed Fitzgerald and Ed Hamlin both passed the Dartmouth ace with 210 yards to go. Mullin's time was 4:11.1; Fitzgerald was a second and a half behind...
...time for the guns to fall silent. The rampaging Communist-led Pathet Lao agreed to the ceasefire, too, but meanwhile its troops keep right on fighting and advancing. At Vang Vieng, a military headquarters 65 miles north of the capital city of Vientiane, some 400 Pathet Lap launched a dawn attack and chased twice as many government troops 40 miles down the road toward the capital. Among the casualties: three members of a U.S. military mission intended to buck up the battle-bored Royal Laotian Army. A U.S. observer said grimly, "The army is pretty well finished for the time...
This week, Radcliffe had its annual six-day swimming marathon. Each dorm is given one point for every girl who shows up at the pool, and for each lap she swims. The dorm with the highest number of laps at the end of the six days usually wins. Occasionally, as happened last year, it was not the number of laps that paid off, it was the number of girls. Whitman won last year by sending more girls over to the pool for the guaranteed one point. On one day, for example, 70 Whitman girls showed...
Blodgett, who finished the day with 20 points, won the low hurdles in 26.6. Hatch finished second. Jed Fitzgerald won the two mile run, and Mark Mullin, who was in third place at the start of the last lap, kicked away from Army's John Jones to take second...