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Early last year, when U.S. Olympic Basketball Coach Hank Iba was trying to round up a team for Mexico City, he learned to his dismay that Lew Alcindor, the U.C.L.A. skyscraper, and several other Negro stars were planning to skip the Games. The best Iba could do for center was Spencer Haywood, 19, a 6-ft. 8-in. player from Colorado's Trinidad State Junior College...
...Bruins had a two-man advantage in the final minutes of the period when defenseman Skip Freeman and Durno were penalized for interference, but Harvard weathered the threat and successfully killed the penalties...
...only real excitement in the meet (with the exception of sporadic announcements of the score of the Harvard-B.C. hockey game) was provided by junior Skip Hare in the broad jump. With only one jump left for all competitors, Hare led at 23'3". B.C.'s Dan Burke, however, toped this with a final jump of 23.5 1/2". Undaunted, Hare topped his previous best for Harvard by an inch as he soared 23'6", less than a foot short of Aggrey Awori's Harvard record...
Blocked at Home. Finch helped organize Nixon's 1962 gubernatorial campaign, but even as Nixon lost, Finch started to get the political fever again. The political winds at the time were blowing hard toward Ronald Reagan, and a wiser Finch decided to skip the big contest and content himself with the lieutenant-governorship. In a surprisingly large victory, Finch succeeded in outpolling Reagan by about 100,000 votes. All through this period, Finch remained close to Nixon. When Nixon decided to run for the presidency in 1968, Finch was one of the first to start the wheels rolling...
...despite the demoralizing absence of gimpy Bob Galliers, Harvard's broad jumpers won all three places with Skip Hare in first with a 22' 6 1/2" jump...