Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cloth and psychedelic banners. There was an angry flare-up over the black monopoly on policymaking. "Black militants have taken over, and nobody else gets a chance to talk," protested Reies Lopez Tijerina, leader of a group of 200 Mexican-Americans quartered at the private Hawthorne School about a mile from the shantytown. He complained that brown, red and white Americans were being bossed around by the Negroes and shouted down at meetings. "They are pushed down by black marshals, pushed out and humiliated." Abernathy finally made a pilgrimage to Hawthorne and promised Tijerina a larger voice for nonblack groups...
...three mile, junior Doug Hardin, normally a two-miler, forced the pace for the first ten laps before tiring badly with half a mile left. Hardin's time for the first two miles, 8:54, was the best he has done for the distance this spring. Georgetown's Steve Stageberg won the event in meet record time...
Baker was a front-runner in the mile, fighting for the lead over the first three quarters with Villanova's Charlie Messenger and Frank Murphy. With one lap to go. Baker was a step behind Murphy...
...running events, Harvard got no points despite two strong performances by Jim Baker and Doug Hardin. Baker lopped two more seconds off his university mile record, but his 4:00.2 performance was good only for sixth behind Villanovan Dave Patrick's winning 3.56.8. Patrick's time is the best ever in Eastern competition...
...ships for the Allies. During that time, Bechtel was also gaining experience in oil-refinery engineering and pipeline construction, which paid off handsomely in postwar years. Since then, Bechtel engineers have been consistently busy. One of their earlier enterprises: laying a large part of the 1,100-mile trans-Arabian pipeline linking the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean in 1947-50. One of their more recent tasks: building the transalpine line between Trieste and Ingolstadt in Bavaria, completed last year...