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Harvard's best performance in the running events came in the two-mile as Doug Hardin and Jim Baker finished third and fourth respectively. The two led for most of the race but were passed by Colby's Sebsibe Mamo--who won in a meet record time of 8:50.7--and Villanova's Tom Donnelly in the final quarter...
Baker and Doug Hardin are easily among the finest two-milers in today's meet, with respective times of 8:48.4 and 8:44.2. If Baker runs the mile, Hardin will have to battle it out with Villanova's titlist Messenger, Colby's Sebsibe Mamo, and Wesleyan's Ambrose Burfoot...
...Clarke striding rhythmically, effortlessly around the track, burning out his challengers. With a badly twisted ankle, Gerry Lindgren was struggling just to finish, and the crowd in National Stadium waited patiently for Clarke to shake the other also-rans: Tunisia's little Mohamed Gamoudi, Ethiopia's Mamo Wolde-and Billy Mills. But on and on they went, matching stride for stride, lapping stragglers, jockeying for position. Clarke was in front going into the final lap. Incredibly, Mills was right behind, and so were the other two unknowns...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz got a special Navy Day bow from the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, who made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...
...royal feather cloak is left in the Bishop Museum at Honolulu; it is valued at a million dollars. It took 100 years to make such a cloak. Only feathers of a certain texture, color and length were used; one from under each wing of the o-o or mamo birds, one from the head of the male...