Word: stretches
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Contributing Editor Robin Man-nock is no stranger to the more rigorous aspects of journalism. He covered the Congo fighting in 1964 and rode into Stanleyville with a truckload of mercenaries. His seat that night was a case of dynamite. More recently, Mannock did a stretch of war reporting in Viet Nam. But neither there nor in Africa, he says, was he ever in quite as much danger as he was in last week, while visiting Alaska. With the aid of TIME'S Anchorage Stringer, Joe Rychetnik, Mannock wangled his way into some winter war games...
...days ago, Harvard came within minutes of upsetting the Lions in New York. Harvard held a three-point lead with 2:15 remaining, but faltered in the stretch and lost...
Still euphoric over its first Beanpot championship in six years, Harvard's varsity hockey team moves into the final stretch of the season when it plays the University of New Hampshire at 8 p.m. tonight at Watson Rink...
Popping Bennies. For one thing, a hang-up on work. A spasmodic, frenetic editor who refused to delegate authority, Hefner used to go on "work binges," during which he would labor for as long as 72 hours at a stretch, eating practically nothing, swigging Pepsi-Colas (25 a day) and popping bennies. "I developed a tremendous tolerance for amphetamines," he says. "My weight dropped from 175 lbs. to 135 lbs. It was a way of living not well calculated to be either lengthy or pleasant. I finally woke up to the fact that I had the world by the tail...
...meet was encouraging for the Crimson. NYYU had beaten Columbia 18-9, the same score with which the Lions toppled Harvard. The improvement in Irvings, sabre Tony Abbott, and Tom Keller, who was facing his strongest competition of the year, was evident. Going into what will be the decisive stretch of the season, starting with Trinity on Wednesday and Penn on Saturday, the NYU meet is an encouraging sign...