Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until five years ago. What's more, Track Coach Tom Williams, a onetime halfback with the Los Angeles Rams, gets only ten athletic scholarships a year. But he makes the most of what he has. Williams can field nine runners capable of cracking 10 sec. in the 100-yd. dash, a 174-ft. discus thrower, a 26-ft. broad jumper -and the best sprint relay team...
...gold have run off with practically every sprint relay in sight, and their times (40 sec. for the 440, 1 min. 23.3 sec. for the 880) are the fastest in the U.S. Last week, at the Southwestern Athletic Conference meet in Houston, they romped to yet another 440-yd. victory, in 40.4 sec. Better still, they have only begun to hit their stride. Donald Owens is only a junior, but he is the captain of the team. The others-Richard Stebbins, Vernus Ragsdale and Donald Meadows-are all sophomores running in their second varsity season...
...February, 40 boilermakers struck one company because they could not get fish and chips for their Friday lunch, and last month 300 iron workers walked off a job at the Sydney engineering works of Tulloch, Ltd. because management would not unlock a door to save them a 200-yd. walk in the rain...
...Curtain. Most maps do not even show Kasane, in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland. But to hundreds of thousands of blacks suffering under the indignities of South African apartheid, the scruffy riverside village is the gateway to Elysium. For Kasane leads to Freedom Alley, a tiny, 50-yd. stretch of border between friendly Bechuanaland and Northern Rhodesia that refugees from South and South West Africa may cross in safety. Even so, only a rifle shot west of this chink in the apartheid curtain, menacing reed banks mask the end of the Caprivi Strip, a narrow arm of South West Africa...
...matter of subjective judgment. The loud cries and balletic fencing that often influenced judges has given way to rough-and-tumble dueling that demands physical conditioning as tough as any football player's. Princeton's would-be D'Artagnans start training each day with five 220-yd. laps around the gym and 15 rugged minutes of calisthenics. Then, after a 20-minute lesson and 90 minutes of free fencing, they go ten more laps, two of them running backwards...