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...wanted to stay with the field and keep the pressure on without over-extending ourselves," Parker said. But Harvard just couldn't hold the pace and still have enough left over at the end for a final sprint, something both West Germany and Australia were able to accomplish successfully...
...reporters straggling in his wake, he called out: "Come on, fellows, let's do a little jogging." Only TIME'S Hays Gorey took off his shoes and accepted the challenge. "Let's make it a race," Humphrey said. So Gorey took off in a 20-yd. sprint. He edged out Humphrey...
Sentinel's system of radar tracking stations, long-range Spartan missiles and short-range Sprint rockets could indeed be of some avail against Chinese intercontinental missiles, although Peking has fallen a year behind schedule and is not expected to pose any threat until the mid-1970s . Against the real and present peril of 780 land-based Soviet missiles already pointed at U.S. targets, however, Sentinel will afford virtually no protection. Even a "thick" ABM shield, costing $40 billion instead of the projected $5.5 billion for the thin screen, would be hopelessly porous. Missile experts are quicker to devise...
After that point the Crimson Eight took complete control. As the two shells pounded toward the finish line and made ready for the final sprint, it was Harvard by three-quarters of a length...
Harvard's varsity lightweights may be the best in their division, but they had no right to be the 1968 Eastern Sprint Champs. Richard B. Hoffman, 1L Guy M. Blynn...