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...dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds "in the right places" for added strength. An amphibian prodigy who started swimming in earnest at the age of four, Schoolboy Clark is confident that his 100-yd. record will be broken, but he hopes to be the one to do it. Says he: "I certainly don't think I've reached my fastest...
...Middle East: the advantage of a common language. The 2,000 African students in Cairo are disillusioned. "We have been brought to Cairo more for politics than anything else. There is no free discussion, no questions are allowed. It is just like being treated as a schoolboy all over again," complained one. While Nasser was busy plotting in the Arab world, its old enemy Israel got off to a better start in African trade and aid, even with African Moslem nations. At one time, Israel had more diplomatic representation in Africa than all the Arab countries put together, still...
This season Kidd killed off Ireland's 31-year-old Pete McArdle and Britain's 39-year-old Fred Norris to win a two-mile in Boston Garden in 8:49.2-nearly a full minute faster than any other schoolboy had ever before run the distance. In the U.S. championships at Madison Square Garden, Kidd won the three-mile in 13:47 while trouncing Record Holder Al Lawrence, 30. In Chicago, running in the cramped event of the mile that barely let him get warmed up, Kidd not only finished a respectable second to Hungary's lean...
...think the time has come." He was timing his retirement, he said, to enable his successor to be ready for the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi next November. He planned to step down in May, and already felt like a schoolboy "getting in sight of the holidays," or a "matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring again...
...western New York State's Triple Cities of Endicott, Binghamton and Johnson City last week, residents poured into a temporary office with their pledges of help to repel an invader. A 13-year-old schoolboy offered $142 saved from his newspaper route. A local dairy put up $100,000. A Boy Scout troop signed up for $150. A Greek Orthodox church proffered $3,000. A medical group pledged $25,000. Endicott's Post 82 of the American Legion pledged $50,000, offering to take "the plaster off the walls and sell the post home" if more was needed...