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From Creep to Sprint. The Mollet government had compelling reasons for its refusal to increase the price of bread. One of France's gravest problems is the creeping inflation which in the last year has increased the housewife's food bills by 30%. A rise in the price of bread, the government feared, would be just the psychological spark required to set off a universal demand for wage increases that would change creeping inflation into a wild sprint...
When they look at the schedule ahead, the Dodgers know that they are sitting pretty. Now, mostly second-division clubs stand between them and another pennant, while the other contenders try to belt each other out of the race. In the sprint to the finish, the second-place Dodgers are once again the team to beat...
...powerful Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team, a bad break stopped him once more. He suffered leg cramps, was roundly beaten, and missed making...
...which the best of competing jumpers qualified for spear-throwing, the four best spear-tossers ran a sprint race, the three fastest sprinters flung a discus, and the two finalists wrestled for a wreath of olive leaves. The modern decathlon consists of the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1,500-meter...
Undefeated two-miler Pete Reider ran away from everyone, beating teammate Ralph Perry by 150 yards. Dave McLean, with an unbelievable sprint, came from 30 yards behind to beat Eli Tim Hogen by five yards...