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...high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics, at the age of 15 took the stump for the local Democratic candidate for the state legislature. At the University of Oklahoma, Albert majored in political science, was student council president, Phi Beta Kappa, a tournament bridge player, a sprinter, a 118-lb. wrestler (he now weighs 168), a member of the chess team and the pistol squad. The boy from Bug Tussle also won a Rhodes scholarship...
...varsity swimming team tackles one of its toughest opponents of the season this afternoon at Annapolis. Navy lost only Guthrie, Norfleet, and Oldham from the squad that beat Yale last year, and gained a highly touted sprinter from last year's freshmen. But the Crimson was not hurt much by graduation either, and most of the swimmers who figured in last year's victory over the Middles are back to try again this season...
Stowell's freshman team, led by shotputter Art Croasdale and Olympic sprinter Aggrey Awori, may provide some of the outstanding performances of the evening. Croasdale set the University indoor shot put record in Monday's B.U. meet. Awori has clocked a 9.4 seccentury, and reached the semifinals in the 1960 Olympic 100-meter dash competition...
Many have advanced fears that Princeton will upset the Crimson, even though the meet this year is at Cambridge. Graef is an excellent sprinter, and the Tiger medley relay team should be as good as any in the east. It will be a meet worth watching...
...Fort Campbell, Ky., the 101st Airborne is as ready to go as a sprinter braced on the starting blocks. Everything the division owns can be carried by air except the barracks: 25-ton M41 tanks, antitank guns, Jeeps, the "mechanical mule" (a kind of motorized flatbed wagon), field kitchens, ground radar, and the 15-mile Honest John rocket, which can be fitted with a nuclear warhead. One company (300 men) is always ready to move out within an hour; an entire battle group (1,800 men) can be on its way in four. Every morning, every man on alert assumes...