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Nobody got all the answers to last Thursday's rock and roll quiz, but three entrants did hit 39 of the 40 questions correctly. They were John Leshy '66 of Kirkland House; Jim Sersich '68 of Lowell; and Suzanne Snell '66 and Joel DeMott '67 of Eliot Hall. Almost everyone was stumped by question number 32, which asked for the source of the lines, "Like a summer rose needs the sun and rain, I need your sweet love to heal the pain." This lovely couplet comes from Tommy Hunt's unjustifiably obscure "I Just Don't Know What...
...rematch last week at Auckland: dogging Keino's footsteps for most of the race, he turned it on in the last 20 yds. to win by 3 ft. in 3 min. 54.1 sec.-tying the listed world record held by New Zealand's own Peter Snell. Twice was too much for Keino. "I am going back to Kenya and learn how to sprint the last lap," he said. "Just wait-I am going to get that record." Snell, who was a spectator at the contest, thought otherwise. One day, he predicted, East Germany's May is going...
...June, France's Michel Jazy broke Snell's one-mile record by .5 sec. Stung, Snell hopped off for Europe to recapture his position. In Helsinki he raced in a 1,500-meter contest. He lost. In London earlier this month, he tried to win back the mile record, finished seventh, barely scraping in under the four-minute mark. Two days later he was beaten in Dublin by two British milers. In Czechoslovakia he lost two races. In Oslo he was beaten at 800 meters. Two weeks ago in Berlin, Oregon's Jim Grelle, whom Snell...
...Dimension." What had gone wrong? "Looking back, I think that I didn't work quite as hard as I did for Tokyo," said Snell. "I more or less achieved what I had set out to do and proved myself the best at the Olympics. I endeavored to hold on for the tour, but it just wasn't possible." Fans in New Zealand felt that if Snell had eased up on his training, it was because he had been a reluctant hero from the start, had never been able to summon the insatiable competitive instincts that keep driving most...
Whatever the reasons, Snell saw no possibility of regaining his championship form this season. Rather than make it eleven losses, he accepted the bitter truth. Canceling the rest of his tour, he announced that he was quitting racing altogether. "Perhaps this tour added a new dimension," he said in Germany. "At least people know I can take a defeat...