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...members on the slopes of New England, the club plans within the next few months to take a trip to the St. Elias Range in the Yukon and to conduct a number of expeditions to local rock and ice areas as the club swings back into its peacetime stride...
Olsen, with his long stride, managed to shake off everyone but Dartmouth's McLane. The two raced neck & neck through the New Hampshire woodland, along a hillcrest, over rolling meadow. Then Olsen called on his last reserves, forged ahead, won by 14 seconds. But McGill still trailed Dartmouth by two points. All depended on the last event-the jump...
...chugged along, a half -stride behind the long-striding king of U.S. milers, Les MacMitchell. The 150-lb. Frenchman ran with feather-footed ease, his arms high, no pumping. He arranged to have fractional times called in French - 2:12.4 at the half, tantalizingly slow for Madison Square Garden's fast track. Suddenly, with the finish almost in sight, Marcel ran out of gas, wound up third, 12 yards back of MacMitchell. Time...
...greystone government building, where the Political Consultation Conference was in session, the paraders yelled for unity and democracy. Taking everything in their stride, they surged on to the British Embassy, crying "We want Hong Kong back!" His Majesty's imperturbable Ambassador, Sir Horace Seymour, sat imperturbably by the fireplace in his office. In the old days, he remembered, such demonstrations were commonplace-"It seems," he said, "that peace has really come to China...
...Sell Chevies. The consuming ambition to make Ford first again keeps Young Henry moving fast with his bouncing stride. He gets up early, usually at 6 a.m., showers and dresses. Most of the time he wears dark, expensively cut grey or blue double-breasted suits (still made by his prep-school tailor), favors blue polka dot four-in-hands...