Word: markings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Writing the leaflet with Kazin were Laura C. Crawford '69, Paul E. Summit '71, and Mark Lieberman...
Newton was accused of killing a cop in a gunfight, for which he could have gone to the gas chamber. Last week, instead, he was found guilty of manslaughter, and now he faces two to 15 years in prison. Though there were only a few racial outbursts to mark the court's finding, no one in Oakland was taking threats by Black Panthers with anything but seriousness...
...even man aged to equal the Olympic qualifying standard. But in most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault...
...meter dash was the real sizzler. The third-place finisher, Stanford Graduate Larry Questad, tied Tommie Smith's world mark of 20 sec. flat. Smith himself, who finished second, was clocked in 19.9 sec. The winner: New York's John Carlos, who turns on for races by listening to soul music. He broke the tape in 19.7 sec.-a full .3 sec. off Smith's old record...
Last spring when the Yearbook decided to write about the older members of the Harvard faculty including Crane Brinton, the article concluded, "To mark the passing of a great man is not to strike a mournful note, but merely to reflect upon the time-table of a career. For every end there is always, somewhere, a new beginning; and it is a funny but accepted truth that the many who start are always overshadowed by the few who finish...