Word: race
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Penn, which had snapped Harvard's winning streak last week apparently eliminating the Crimson from the race, was upset by Yale, 2-1, and thrown into a second place tie with Harvard. If Harvard can beat first place Brown this Saturday and Yale in two weeks, they will salvage a tie for first place...
Sophomore stars Dave Pottetti and Tom Spengler took the next two slots. Pottetti ran a steady race and was closing on Downey over the last two miles. Spengler was farther back for most of the race, but bounded up the final hill to overtake three opponents, finishing sixth...
Harvard junior Keith Colburn finished a scant four seconds behind Shorter in third place. Colburn ran the best race of his career, starting strongly and maintaining a steady pace in fourth position most of the way. Throughout the fourth mile, Colburn gradually whittled away the gap between himself and Princeton's Eamon Downey. The two of them matched strides until Colburn turned on his speed in the final 100 yards to edge Downey by a second...
...ters of the Gulf of Mexico off Loui siana. It is composed of workboats, tugs, barges and even helicopters, and is crewed by hard-hat engineers, welders and derrick workers. Along the Gulf, a group of companies have strung out 1,000 miles of pipeline in a race for some of the richest U.S. natural-gas deposits...
...race for individual laurels will probably see a repeat of last year's dual between Harvard's Hardin and Yale captain Frank Shorter. A year ago Hardin outkicked Shorter over the last quartermile for the victory. But last week at Princeton, Shorter set a blistering pace from the outset and eased away from Hardin...