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...sprint freestyle events, Crimson captain Bobby Hackett got nipped by Klingele in the 50-yd. free, but Jim Carbone came on to beat the Army rocket in the 100-yd. event...
Last year, "Stormin' Norma" Barton and Kathleen McCloskey often vied for supremacy in the butterfly events, with Barton usually eking out the majority of the wins. But now that Barton has hung up her goggles, McCloskey seems the clear favorite in the sprint fly events--perhaps even in the grueling 200-yard race...
...Yale one-yard line, and Harvard quarterback Milt Holt of Honolulu, Hawaii, hunches over his center, calling the signals. The scoreboard clock shows 15 seconds remaining, and the 40,000 fans jamming Soldiers Field to capacity fall silent. Holt is about to run the option play--a sprint to the left side of the field which will offer him two alternatives. The first is to find an open receiver and try to throw him a touchdown pass. The second is to fake the pass and attempt to run into the end zone himself. The ball is snapped. Holt rolls...
...head into a grimacing window) to the tiny pain-pricks of romance (buying lunch for screaming kids), Allen's split-version of suffering remains the same: On the one hand, he inarticulately asserts the need to end human suffering; on the other, he has a fierce desire to sprint blindly into the open arms of a beautiful woman. With no resolution of this dilemma at hand, and unable to make a choice and stick to it, Allen muddles through his inner torment. He turns his attention from suffering to death and from death to all his old themes: sex, religion...
...rush to the mountain has actually been a sprint. Last January, after coming across traces of alluvial gold on his land, Farmer Genésio Ferreira da Silvia hired a geologist to investigate whether there was a larger deposit. Word leaked out, and within a week 1,000 prospectors had descended on the farm. Five weeks later, there were 10,000 on Ferreira's property and another 12,000 nearby. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 lbs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret...