Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even without a Dartmouth challenge, there was fierce competition for each of the seven scoring positions. The entire team was closely bunched at the start, and seven runners passed the mile mark together in 4:32. By the two-mile mark, the field had begun to string out, but seventh man John Heyburn was still only eleven seconds behind the leaders...
Over the last three miles, the race broke up into several smaller battles. After a brief challenge by Keith Colburn in the second mile, Royce Shaw and captain Doug Hardin were left alone in a head-to-head duel at the front. Hardin attempted to force the pace and move away in the third and fourth miles, but Shaw stayed on his shoulder tenaciously. The bearded pair fought it out evenly until Shaw put on a final burst 150 yards from the finish, sprinting away from Hardin by two seconds. Both runners eclipsed Shaw's old record...
After a brief flash of brilliance in the middle of the race, Colburn settled back into sixth place. He revived in the final mile, however, to overtake sophomore Jon Enscoe and challenge Tom Spengler. But Spengler glanced back with about 600 yards to go and the redhead's attempt to "sneak up on him" was foiled when his teammate picked up the pace and clinched fourth place by two seconds. Enscoe finished behind Colburn in sixth place with a personal best time...
Senior Tim McLoone and John Heyburn matched strides in a battle for seventh until McLoone made a strong move with just over a mile to go, striding in for the final displacement points. McLoone finished less than a minute behind the victor, giving Harvard a closely-bunched group of top-flight runners...
...daily 7-min. to 11-min. Wally, Walt and Donn Show, as it was nicknamed, was scheduled once each morning during a 2,000-mile Apollo pass between Corpus Christi, Texas, and Cape Kennedy, the only two ground stations equipped to pick up the transmissions. The astronauts held up crudely lettered signs that read "Hello from the lovely Apollo Room, high atop everything" and "Deke Slayton, are you a turtle?" In accordance with a bar room tradition that has been adopted by the astronauts, Slayton was required to answer "You bet your sweet ass I am" -or pay the penalty...