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He was 20 sec. behind with three laps still to go. Suddenly the years of conditioning paid off. Zooming into the turns like a sprinter, Henk picked up a second on the next to last lap, shaved off another 1.3 sec. on the final lap. With one final burst, he...
But in the Larrive Two-Mile, a star was born. Bruce Kidd, a 17-year-old high school senior from Toronto, took the lead with four laps to go and held off a determined challenge by Pete McArdle, a 30-year-old veteran from New York. Kidd's winning time...
Filene's alone employs at least 10 Santa Clauses, some to display toys in the window, some to open their laps to expectant children. The Santa Claus in the window delivers readings from something called "The Good Book," which presumably contains the names of every child in Boston (or at...
In every way it was a wonderful foot race. In at least one way it told more about the 1960 Olympics than any other single event. For nearly three laps, the winner-a hawk-nosed, crane-legged fellow with a familiar, loping stride-stayed back with the pack in the...
Along with other habits picked up from their former French masters, the men who rule Laps seem to like to make frequent and complex changes of government. Last week, nearly a month after Paratroop Captain Kong Le forcibly overthrew a pro-Western Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.), Laos once...