Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most exciting race of the day was the mile run, in which the Crimson's Tom Spengler edged Eli Frank Shorter in a photo-finish. Both performers finished with times of 4:11.0. followed by Harvard's Roy Shaw a few feet back...
...sixteen-year history of the award, three foreign athletes have won. Nayar is the first squash player ever to be selected. Jim Baker, who holds the Harvard mile record of 4:00.2, was the 1968 recipient...
Yale's Frank Shorter and Steve Bittner took first place in two of the three distance events in the Heps, and Shorter also finished second behind Harvard's Roy Shaw in a photo-finish mile. Shaw will run in the mile again Saturday and will team up with Keith Colburn in an effort to stop Bittner in the 880-yard...
Shorter will be the favorite in the two-mile, where he topped Crimson runners Dave Pottetti and Tim McLoone last week...
Early in the summer, a few forest fires had been contained on the outskirts of Fairbanks--an overgrown frontier town that is the closest thing to civilization in Alaska's 400,000 square-mile interior. Throughout August, the distant fires still created a persistent haze and a strong smell of pine incense. At any moment, lightning could ignite the dry moss in a forest much closer to home and destroy some section of the town, but the pool of trained firefighters was nearly exhausted. Besides local volunteers, firefighters from Montana, Idaho, and other Western states and laborers from the local...