Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder of Peru's peasant-and-worker APRA Party-and he was on the last lap of a long journey. After three decades of jail, exile and bitter fighting, Haya was at last a candidate, running openly and legally, for President of Peru. As the June 10 election date drew near, he was the favorite, but a narrow one and a man whose many enemies were closing in around him. Pressing hard are Fernando Belaúnde, 49, who narrowly lost the 1956 election, and a voice from the more distant...
Mullin, after starting far outside in lane 10, trailed far behind as the leaders passed the 440 mark in 60.0 and the 880 post in 2:02.0. In the third lap, he fought his way through the pack, but as the gun sounded for the last quarter-mile, he was still third, behind Larry Rawson of Boston College and Pat Traynor of Villanova...
...mile, Crimson captain Mark Mullin won another classic battle with little Bobby Mack, the Mechanical Man of Yale. Mack bravely led out the race for three quarters, but he ran too slowly. The time at the three-quarter mark was only 3:09.6, and Mullin's 59.6 last lap gave him the race in 4:09.2, a meet record...
Mullin set two Dartmouth stadium records as he covered three and one-half miles for the day. In the mile, he fought off a last-lap challenge by Indian Tom Laris and won in 4:09.6. Although the mile time set a record, it might have been a great deal faster...
...next 27 laps were what the crowd had come to see. Around and around the 2½-mile Goodwood circuit, with its six corners and dangerous, S-shaped chicane, he drove with awesome speed. Relentlessly, he closed the gap on Hill: from 17th, he moved up to 15th, then 13th, 11th and 9th. He saluted as he passed other cars and waved to Mechanic Robinson in the pits. "Stirling is driving incredibly," reported the track announcer from his vantage point in a tower. "He's taking the corners faster than ever before." In a Lola, Britain's John...