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Harvard's Buck Logan kept up with Switchenko over the first two and a half miles of the race but by the three mile marker "both had become extremely anti-social," McCurdy said...
...speedstar Art Switcenko, Dartmouth took command of the race at the halfway mark of the six mile race. And though the Crimson tried hard to spoil Dartmouth's romp, it could not make up the difference over the treacherous hills of Dartmouth's home course...
...initial tremor registered 7.5 on the Richter Scale, which was slightly lower than the 7.7 recorded in September 1978, when 25,000 people were killed in northeast Iran. In El Asnam, the city was again laid waste, along with many of the farmhouses and villages in a 25-mile radius. Eyewitnesses estimated that 80% of El Asnam was destroyed; the Algerian Red Crescent initially reported that perhaps as many as 25,000 had been killed and another 200,000 injured or left homeless, without food or drinkable water. Said a Swiss official of the International Red Cross: "God knows when...
...harness racing, there has never been a horse quite like the big bay colt called Niatross. Winner of 30 races in 32 trips to the post, he is the Secretariat of his sport. The fastest pacer ever to pull a sulky, Niatross holds world records for both the racing mile and a mile in a time trial. Last weekend, he won the Messenger Stakes at New York's Roosevelt Raceway by two lengths on a rain-soaked track to capture the Triple Crown for pacers.* Niatross thus became only the sixth pacer in history to win the Triple Crown...
...Messenger Stakes, he kept in trim by running a time trial alongside Thoroughbreds at Lexington, Ky. Head held high in the distinctive pacer's posture, his legs whipping a high-speed dressage. Niatross flew around the track in 1:49 1/5, smashing the world record for a pacing mile by 2 4/5 sec.-even bigger than the margin by which Secretariat shattered the Belmont Stakes record in his 31-length victory in the final leg of the 1973 Thoroughbred Triple Crown...