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...remaining competitive events, B.U. took four first places to the Yardlings' two. Freshman winners were Joel Landau in the dash and Bill Gillen in the mile. The mile relay team of Dave Brahms, Dave Resenthal, Lee Barnes, and Al Gordon defeated its B.U. rival by almost a lap...
...want of a middle name, New ' Delhi Correspondent Alexander Campbell almost lost a lap in his pursuit of Russia's carpetbagging Bulganin and Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). Campbell's father had intended, 43 years ago, to name his first-born Alexander MacLean, but he forgot the MacLean at the christening. "Now," says our correspondent, "there are thousands of Alexander Campbells, and lots of them are journalists, including one who much annoyed the Burmese after World War II, allegedly by participating in a rebellion...
...last lap, varsity pacer Pete Reider came into the picture by passing Fawcett and taking over second place from Wilson. Then, with a second wind, Fawcett moved up past Wilson, who finished in a fast fourth place...
...broad safety belt is buckled over his lap; shoulder straps are snapped to the safety belt and then to the seat to hold him in place when the water brakes grab. His elbows are cinched close to his sides by a strap running across his back. At 400 m.p.h. and over, wind blast can start a man's limbs flailing uncontrollably with bone-snapping force...
...work and an hour of study with his medical journals before he breakfasts and drives to the lab. For the short ride, he carefully straps himself into his 1953 Cadillac (called Godiva, because "it rides beautifully but keeps me out of new clothes") with a lap-type safety belt. On the way home in the late afternoon, he does his own shopping at the base commissary. Time passes quickly. Says he: "Sometimes I feel beaten to death by a steady procession of Decembers...