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As evening fell and the final tabulations of the eight-day event came in, Eliot, with 4,537 laps, led the second-place Commuters and Cooperatives by a strapping 2,000 lengths. Whitman Hall, although scheduled as Eliot's partner made only a trivial contribution to the victory. With each...
If money is a nightmare, even more vexing is the oddly uneven quality of public education. Compared to Europe's state-run systems, U.S. schools seem an anarchist's brainchild. With their genius for decentralization, the Constitution's writers left education in the laps of the states...
On the 19th lap, University of Southern California's Bob Soth was second, running the race of his life when the pace suddenly hit him. He staggered like a sidewalk drunk, feet reaching blindly, body jerking from side to side, arms flopping in grotesque rhythm. For three laps, he...
Ask Any Girl. Shirley MacLaine, a great comedienne, uses all her charm to resist the advertising lures of Madison Avenue laps.
OXFORD, June 8--Gamesmanship and Oneupmanship were in widespread use yesterday as the Harvard-Yale track team completed its last hard workout before the meet Wednesday evening with Oxford and Cambridge in London's White City Stadium. Kevin Gilligan, Oxford's excellent distance runner did his best to undermine American...