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...sophomore, Baker usually ran second behind senior Dave Allen, and he finished 40th in the IC4A's that year. As a freshman, Baker was considered the greatest distance runner ever to enter Harvard: he had run a 4:14.9 mile and a 9:14 two-mile as an English school...
...People who can see have a legal duty to protect the blind. In Upper Darby, Pa., James Argo, a blind broom peddler, entered an office building to hawk his wares for the 40th time in ten years. This time, workmen had removed the floor. Argo plunged 18 feet, suffered serious injuries, and won a jury verdict of $27,500. Rejecting the landlord's appeal, the Pennsylvania court ruled that henceforth landlords must foresee potential dangers to the state's 15,000 blind citizens. Argo, held the court, was entitled to the simplest imaginable safeguard: "The defendants could have...
...would have come across a cheap-looking mimeographed publication called The Pageant of the Beasts, by Anonymous. Selling (in fact best-selling) for a dime, it told of a forest full of animals who put together a pageant in honor of White Swan, a local poet laureate whose 40th birthday...
...probably as unique as his fingerprints. The hair may grow thinner, but the capacity for mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand Moby Dick, The Waste Land or Ulysses (which was published on James Joyce's 40th birthday) far better than the 18-year-old who is assigned it in freshman English...
...television cameras-the Queen last week summoned the Commons to a parliamentary session that promises to be the longest, most loquacious and most Laborious since the end of World War II. As 185 rounds of gunfire celebrated the double occasion of a royal birthday (it was Elizabeth's 40th) and Parliament's opening, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's strengthened Laborites made it clear that in this session they hope to pass all the controversial bills that their pre-election majority of three had made impossible. With a 97-seat margin after the March 31 elections, Labor...