Word: mile-and-a-half
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Three of them are Catholics and three are in the starting offensive line, but saying the room that prays together, plays together sells them a mile-and-a-half short. There is a deeper bond and a livelier respect in Eliot K-32 that makes it a showcase for the good aspects that both go into and come out of Harvard football...
...soon as it hit the forward fuselage of the three-jet Boeing 727, the twin-engined Cessna disintegrated in a yellow fireball. For a few seconds, the bigger plane looked like a wounded quail struggling for control. Then, still airborne, it too exploded, raining debris over a mile-and-a-half area near Hendersonville, N.C. "I could see bodies falling like confetti," said a witness. One crashed through the roof of a house. Another fell in a filling station, others on highways and trees. Miraculously, no one on the ground was injured. But all 82 people aboard the two planes...
...battle for position-and I won the battle." Hill Rise faded abruptly. Northern Dancer drew out to win by 21 lengths. The lucky little horse had done it again, $124,200 worth-running his lifetime bankroll to $519,000. Just one more victory, in next month's mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, and he would become the first Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948. Northern Dancer went back to his hay bale. And Bill Hartack went straight to the shower. "The Belmont," he said, "is just another horse race...
...convicts -all seeking peace of mind. With it, they get an awful lot of exercise. The procession, chuckles Father Scuitti, "is no evening promenade." In last week's mock trip to Calvary, a short, fat man grunted and puffed as he bore the cross along a mile-and-a-half route. Coming out of the church, the Catenacciu got his huge load stuck in the doorway. Then, as he stumbled along dirt paths and darkened, cobbled streets, struggled painfully up flights of ancient granite stairs, his bare feet began to bleed. Throngs of villagers and 15,000 tourists...
...turn to challenge Kelso (TIME, Nov. 10), the race's odds-on 2-5 favorite, then dueled down the stretch to come in ahead of Kelso by three-quarters of a length in a surprising 2:26⅓-nearly two seconds below the race record for the mile-and-a-half classic...