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The contest began at Yale two years ago. Harvard was declared winner when the "Barhandler 30" completed more laps than their opponents within the three hour limit. Although not many spectators were present at the onset of the contest, as word and excitement spread, an estimated 1000 people saw the...
> Driving a Lotus, its brakes virtually useless for the last 15 laps, Britain's Stirling Moss averaged 91.3 m.p.h., fast enough to win the 203-mile Pacific Grand Prix at Monterey, Calif.
Time for Thinking. Carrying his case for competition and cost-consciousness across the land, Jones in the past year logged 112,687 miles on commercial planes alone; he uses the flight time to catch up on his reading (currently: Protracted Conflict: A Challenging Study of Communist Strategy). When he is...
> "It's pretty hard to practice good medicine in most homes. I know, because I've tried to examine children on big beds, little beds, cribs with sides that wouldn't go down, sinks, davenports, and laps."
Sometimes three-quarters of a mile long, forming as early as 6:30 a.m., doubling and redoubling upon itself through a maze of sawhorses set up by New York police, the line of people waiting to get into the Music Hall is one of the phenomena of modern show business...