Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the moment he entered Madison Square Garden for the I.C. 4-A. championships, Villanova's great miler. Ron Delany, 22, never seemed to stop running, though he never got around to running the mile. He had to run a qualifying heat for the 1,000-yd. title, then in the race itself made a gut-wrenching rush in the last two laps to win. Less than an hour later, he jogged out for the grueling two-mile grind, found the wind for one more of his famous finishing kicks and won by 6 yds. Still scorning records...
...almost impossible to evaluate the Yale defense, for against the Crimson last weekend it spent the whole evening in and around the Yale crease doing its best to stop the varsity's shots. Captain Dick Starratt and Bruce Smith are expected to start again tonight...
...things did not stop there. A strange transformation had come over the boys and girls of Glenridge-they actually began asking why they should not have classes on Saturday. With the approval of broad-minded Principal Adrian Stockard, Ansley decided to offer two Saturday courses in philosophy, to run 15 weeks. Those who took them would get no academic credit, would even have to pay $15 for the privilege of getting out of bed just as on any school day. Nonetheless, 17 signed up for the three-hour morning course in the history of philosophy, 26 more for logic...
...housewives dropped their after-lunch chores to play, and within ten minutes some 5,000 phone callers had deluged the station's specially installed phones to ask questions or cry "Bingo!" The exchange was so badly jammed that the New York Telephone Co. pleaded with the station to stop airing the phone numbers, but within the hour 35,000 more calls flooded in. Next day the station asked winners to send in their diagrams by mail. The prizes ranged from a $500 TV set to a tankful of fish...
...main evil of the age? Says Bachelor Williams: "Overpopulation. I don't understand why nothing is done to stop this spawning of children in families that can't even afford to have one. It is a crime-an awful crime...