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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from the clouds of industry, Fuji today is challenged by both the contrails of Japan Air Lines' 22 jets and the blue exhaust of Honda's Formula I Grand Prix cars, which snarl in blurring white circles on a race track at Fuji's base...
...TRACK & FIELD...
...Indoor track fans usually have to be satisfied with style and spirit instead of statistics. Performances rarely match those outdoors, partly because few trackmen are in top form during the winter, partly because some events are a whole lot harder indoors. The world record for the mile is 3 min. 51.3 sec. outdoors but 5.1 sec. slower indoors. The board tracks are slower and slipperier than outdoors and smaller, too, with eleven laps to the mile instead of four, 22 turns instead of eight. The indoor long-jump record is 27 ft., compared with 27 ft. 4¾ in. outdoors...
Even if it gets Supreme Court approval, possibly this spring, the Penn Central track may not be as polished as it appeared when the merger plan was announced back in 1961. For one thing, the ICC has ordered it to indemnify some smaller railroads for freight losses they may incur from the merger. Bending to another ICC demand, the Penn Central has agreed to buy the bankrupt New Haven Railroad for $140 million, and that price may go up. Last month the ICC began hearings at which New Haven creditors complained that the price is far too low in view...
...Harvard track team, healthy and rested, takes on six area colleges in the Greater Boston Collegiates at Tufts Friday and Saturday afternoons. The Crimson will have no trouble at all running away with the meet, and Steve Schoonover should break 15 ft. in the pole vault...