Word: starters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postponement meant an extra day's rest for Crimson starter Paul Del Rossi, who pitched against Richmond Friday, and for a Harvard team that played five games last week...
...Cowboys). Even in track skivvies, Hayes still runs as though he had a football tucked under his arm-head bobbing, shoulders rolling, elbows flailing. Unlike such "rabbits" as Germany's Olympic Champion Armin Hary, Hayes has never learned to get the jump on his field by anticipating the starter's gun. He frequently is the last man off the blocks, or close...
...blocks time after time, fighting to pare a tiny fraction of a second off the time it takes him to get in motion. "It's a matter of reflexes," says Hill. "It takes a runner 1/100th to one-tenth of a second to react to the starter's gun. The idea is to get Bob to react as instantly as possible." And one day Hayes will get a perfect start-the gun and the first driving step in the same tick of time. Both Hayes and Hill are certain of it. "When that day comes," says Hayes...
Asseyev, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Leningrad attempted to jump onto the track in the Harvard Square MTA station at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. A man in his company told an MTA starter that Asseyev was about to jump, and a fare collector, Daniel J. Magoon, ran from his booth and stopped Asseyev three to five feet from the edge of the platform, an MTA official said last night...
...their cars carefully, hoping for a break that would put them in front to stay. On the 38th lap, it came: Gurney had to stop for gas. The gas tank of his Lotus held only 40 gal. v. 50 for the Scarab. In the pit, the Lotus's starter froze, and by the time Gurney got back on the track, Foyt was a full lap ahead. Desperately, he tried to close the gap, but the strain was too much: on the 42nd lap, the Lotus was out for good with a broken gearbox...