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...sons and a grandson-were wedged 700 ft. down a narrow tunnel, crawling on their knees and blasting loose great chunks of bituminous coal with an explosive gel. Suddenly, a monstrous explosion shattered the Appalachian quiet. The Joyce Ann shaft (named for a Hamilton widow) had become a quarter-mile-long cannon, and the men inside fodder. Out of the hole in the hill roared thick black smoke, fire, machinery fragments and a flutter of paper currency, the money ripped from the pockets of the seven dead miners below...
...Newsam's performance--which out-shone that of Harvard phenom Darlene Beckford--Hunt said. "She outran Darlene and that's quite an accomplishment. New sam ran one hell of race". The Princeton star is also expected to compete for the Tigers' defending 880 and mile-relay quarters, and place well in the long jump...
Harvard's only other victory of the day came from the two-mile relay team of Wiley, Herliby, de Fries and Beckford, who ran almost uncontested to take an easy first with a time...
...Famous Relatives" Department: Did you know that senior hockey player SCOTT POWERS' older sister, Deborah, is the attractive brunette playing racquetball on the cover of the Wheaties box? And did you know that junior football safety JOHN RICE'S father Greg, held the world record in the two-mile distance for over twelve years starting in the late 1930s? Rice--a Notre Dame alum--was rejected for the draft for hernia problems just days before he blazed to the new mark...
...addition to the 500. Murrer also runs the anchor leg of the mile relay, and it seems that no matter how great the deficit he inherits, he makes it up, and when given a lead Murrer never relinquishes...