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Senior Roy Shaw produced two spectacular comebacks to win both the mile and 1000-yard runs. In the latter race. Shaw was in a seemingly hopeless fifth place with less than a lap remaining, but recovered to pass two runners with about 70 yards left. He went on to nip B.C.'s Dave Walsh and Northeastern's Frank Kelly at the wire in a time...
...Harvard friend signed the slip, adding "son" parenthetically after his name. The attendant ripped off our copy, dropped it into the driver's lap with the credit card and a wad of trading stamps, and, saying nothing, moved to the car that had pulled up behind...
...specialty, the 1000, in a time of 2:15.3. In the mile, he followed a victorious Roy Shaw, who strode across the finish in an easy 4:14.1. Colburn then teamed with Mike Koerner for a one-two finish in the two-mile run. Sophomore Koerner captured the 22-lap event...
Prayers and Jokes. Shielded by a storm for most of the final lap, the Navy gray vessels rendezvoused outside Haifa and on New Year's Eve made their way into port as hundreds of Israelis cheered and ships' sirens split the air. Prayers of thanksgiving were recited in synagogues. Diners toasted the crewmen and exchanged gunboat jokes, some of them wordplays on the name of General Mordechai ("Moka") Limon, Israel's chief of arms purchasing in Europe and the man in charge of the Cherbourg escape. One joke had France's President Georges Pompidou walking into...
...late October, when the Communist troops began to mass around Bu Prang and Due Lap, American commanders warned Colonel Vo Van Canh, the commander of the 23rd division, that they would give him air and artillery support, but that he would have to handle the ground fighting himself. Under personal pressure from President Nguyen Van Thieu to seize the initiative, Canh ordered the 23rd to ferret out the North Vietnamese before they could mount an attack. In a series of daily skirmishes, Colonel Canh's troopers swept the wooded ridge lines of the Central Highlands, preventing the enemy from...