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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would seem at this time that the only politically realistic proposal by the Administration would provide for a great deal of local control. Of course much can also be said for an effort to change the political climate. For instance Sec. of Health, Education and Welfare Anthony Celebreze has yet to endorse the corps publically and it is possible that the Administration may provide further opposition...
...against the clock, the students must batter a piano into pieces small enough to be passed through a hole in a board 20 cm. (7.87 in.) in diameter. The sport got its start at Britain's Derby College of Technology, where the best time was 14 min. 3 sec. Then, at Caltech, members of the Reduction Study Group claimed the piano-demolition championship by crippling a keyboard in 10 min. 44.4 seconds. But records are made to be broken. Last week students at Detroit's Wayne State University reduced an old fraternity piano into kindling...
Time: 3 min. 58.6 sec., three-tenths of a second better than Beatty's own year-old indoor record. There was glory, too, for Tom O'Hara; he had run his first sub-four-minute mile, with 3:59.2. "Just after Tom passed me, I decided: 'This is it,' " said Beatty. "He had a big heart. All he lacked was experience...
Inaugurated at the world bobsledding championships that ended last week, Igls proved about 3 sec. faster for the metric mile than the Lake Placid groove. It also turned out to be a bobber's nightmare. On the second day of the two-man trials, a Swedish team piloted by Gunnar Ähs was hitting 50 m.p.h. when it zoomed into the No. 9 bend, nicknamed the Hexenkessel, or Witches' Pot. The sled slid up the 40-ft. bank, bounced down and ricocheted sickeningly from wall to wall. Ähs's upper front teeth were sheared...
...times world champion in two-man bobs, and Sergio Zardini, 31, a wiry hotel manager from Cortina, Italy's daredevils placed first and second in both the two-man and four-man events. Monti's best time for the two-man bob: 1 min. 6.4 sec., for 51 m.p.h. average...