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...simply flying, moving toward the front as Coe, arms pumping, tried to hang on. Coming out of the final turn, Cram, who commented later that he thought the pace a bit slow, lifted his effort still higher, beyond the reach of the mere mortals on the track. With the overflow crowd of 19,231 booming rhythmic hurrahs, Cram was suddenly out front with a widening lead as Coe and the others broke and fell back. Even before reaching the tape, Cram began to celebrate his victory, both arms raised overhead as he casually glanced around at the crowd...
...many other states. Last week a federal judge in Nashville reacted by hanging out a NO VACANCY sign. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas A. Higgins ruled that no more inmates can be accepted at the state's 13 men's prisons and three inmate-reception centers, where prisoners overflow into gyms and administrative offices. Only once before, in Alabama in 1975, have all a state's jails been closed because of overcrowding...
...some Dunster residents questioned why the Cowperthwaite Street building wouldn’t be used for overflow housing for undergraduates...
Long lasting or not, the controversy last week gave the Administration a severe buffeting. In Manhattan, an annual Holocaust service was moved from a synagogue to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum, where an overflow audience of 5,500 heard Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, declare, "A courtesy call at a conveniently located concentration camp cannot compensate for the callous and obscene scandal of honoring dead Nazis." Dressed in black, 41 women who had survived the death camps marched silently to the stage and lighted six banks of candles. At a similar observance in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon...
Similar dilemmas are likely to crop up at soda fountains and groceries. "It's going to be a problem with so many brands," concedes Ralph Lucas, owner of Lucas Fine Food in Cincinnati. "We have to have more shelf space. We'll cram them in sideways, I guess." The overflow, he added, will pile up in stock rooms...