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...other milers, his speed can be frightening. Outdoors, where he does not have to trim his pace, Bayi regularly runs the first half-mile in the low 1:50s. When Ryun broke the world record, he made the first half in 1:58.9. With his rocketing initial spurt, Bayi has changed the entire strategy of the mile. "We have to get up and go from the start now," says New Zealander Rod Dixon, who placed third in the 1,500 meters in Munich. Says Bayi modestly: "It's just my style. I'm not trying to psych anyone...
After intermission, the Crimson immediately rebuilt the lead, mostly as a result of an 18-point contribution, this time from Silver. The Harvard advantage was never in jeopardy, and only a Dartmouth spurt in the closing seconds made the final margin so close...
...Cake makeup. Cue the lights. Ready on the fountains. Action. "This is the day God has made," beams the Rev. Robert Schuller as he bounds toward the pulpit. A glass panel separating the walk-in sanctuary from the drive-in sanctuary lumbers open. As a dozen fountains spurt skyward, a collective sigh from 1,700 worshipers at Garden Grove Community Church in Southern California announces the start of another Hour of Power...
...Quakers staged their second explosion of the half immediately afterwards. This time, it took only one minute and twenty-nine seconds for Bigelow to swish two jump shots, a Johnson lay-up, and a Johnson jumper which concluded the eight-point spurt and made the score Penn 64, Harvard...
...spurt of the drive began with the first half 11 minutes old. An Arnie Needleman basket preceded five successive points by Doc Hines, four of them unmolested lay-ups. Following two bombs by Griffin, Silver made two foul shots, and the splurge concluded with a four-point play...