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...River, fell into conversation with Douglas Dolan, a postmaster who owns property there. Suddenly a shout went up that two of Dolan's nieces, Deborah, 12, and Nancy, 21, were being swept downstream by the rain-swollen current. The Secretary stripped to his shorts, plunged into the river, overtook the girls and held them steady in the swirling water until a motorboat could get to them. "I was about to go under for the last time," said Debbie, "and Nancy was as bad off as I was." As he was drying off, Wirtz said simply that he had "repaid...
...Communist planes from behind. Lieut. Karl W. Richter, 23, of Holly, Mich., zeroed in on a MIG-17 that was chasing a flight of F-105s, poured cannon fire at it until its right wing broke off and the pilot ejected. Lieut. Fred A. Wilson, of Mobile, Ala., overtook another MIG-17 so fast that he had no time to adjust his gun sights. "I was about to hit him, so I thought I'd better shoot," he said. "It took five seconds. I was so excited I was talking to the MIG. 'Look out, look...
...Crimson was third of the starting line in flat conditions. but overtook the field at 500 meters. By 500 meters. At this point, Harvard at 34 was understroking Cornell by one, but cox Brian Sullivan upped the best to 36. and the push was on. Seat by seat the Crimson moved to a half-length win over the fading Big Red Time...
...Richard Petty, 28: the $112,000 Daytona 500 stock-car race; at Florida's 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1966 Plymouth with a special 550-h.p. "hemi-head" engine, Petty overtook Cale Yarborough's Ford on the 113th lap, led the rest of the way at an average 160.6 m.p.h...
...Philadelphia 76er's overtook the Boston Celtics for first place in the Eastern division of the National Basketball Association by defeating the St. Louis Hawks 112-106. The 76er's now lead the Celtics by one-half game...