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Stopwatches in hand, a team of timers from Parade magazine attended a recent game between the Milwaukee Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers to find out where the time goes. The game proved to be the shortest played at Ebbets Field in two years-one hour, 51 minutes*;but the ball was actually in play only 18 minutes 34.7 seconds of that time. Here is how many of the other 92 minutes were spent: Pitcher Don Newcombe used the rosin bag 28 times, dawdling 2 to 18.1 seconds each time, and talked with Catcher Roy Campanella as long as 45 seconds...
...face of a sudden cloudburst, the University of Michigan chalked up a possible record for the shortest commencement in history. Shouted President Harlan Hatcher as the ceremonies-and the rains -began: "All degrees listed in the commencement program become effective this month," and that was that...
...Iran, an appeals tribunal upheld the punishment of former Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who, in deference to his allergy to jail, had got one of history's shortest stretches for high treason: three years in prison, thus far livened only by a "fast unto death" that lasted two days...
...morning prayers were not only right and helpful in themselves, but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence . . . the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline...
...capable." How good is Rupp's team? In preseason polls, U.S. basketball coaches ranked Kentucky No. 2, after Indiana, last season's N.C.A.A. champion. Main reasons for the high ranking: 1) Coach Rupp himself, 2) Spring-legged Cliff Hagan of Owensboro, Ky., one of the shortest major college (6 ft. 4 in.) centers and one of the game's most prolific scorers (21.6 points average), and 3) Co-Captain Frank Ramsey of Madisonville, Ky., a 6 ft. 3 in. guard and floor leader who specializes in intercepting passes and scoring on driving layup shots...