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...takes so little to set Sprinter Mel Patton's delicate nerves to jangling that he never reads the sport pages before a race. But he could not help knowing that the East had a challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before...
When Patton got on the blocks for the 100-yard final, athletes from 75 colleges paused to watch the great sprinter run his last hundred for the University of Southern California. At the gun, Patton uncoiled like a spring, his long, slender legs pumping, with Stanfield right beside him in an adjoining lane. In the last 20 yards, Patton pulled away enough to win by a yard in 9.7 (slow time compared to the world record 9.3 he hung up last year at Fresno, Calif...
...Patton and Stanfield again ran like a team to the halfway mark, where Patton went into his relaxed "float" and won by two strides in 20.4 (equaling Ralph Metcalfe's 16-year-old N.C.A.A. record). Said Stanfield afterwards: "I figured I'd stay with him, then coast . . . then I had to run like hell to catch up as close as I did." Patton, the tension over, was out of sight as usual, racked and retching with violent nausea. With the help of his two victories, U.S.C. breezed off with the team championship. The score: Southern...
...Economist BorisM. Stanfield: "[Communists] must be purged or reformed not by decrees but by the overwhelming force of an awakened citizenry . . . Our faculties must determine after careful scrutiny and in specific cases whether individual candidates or teachers live up to the standards of intellectual freedom and integrity and act accordingly...
...situation was so tight that a man's home was no longer his castle-it was his fortress. In Brooklyn, James Stanfield, 21-year-old Marine veteran, and his wife Betty barricaded themselves in their newly rented room-and-a-half flat, dared the building superintendent, the owner, and a second veteran who had also rented the apartment, to throw them...