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...this numbers gap didn't impress the 200 hearty spectators, the day's final event, the mile relay, brought the point home. The Crusaders failed to enter a team in either the freshman or varsity runs, leaving the two Crimson teams to compete against each other...
...three front runners, Aggrey Awori, Keith Chiappa, and Tony Lynch traded the lead several times with their Cadet counterparts in fast, exciting duels. Anchorman John Ogden took the baton three yards behind, and even a 0:48.5 leg couldn't close the gap...
...morning after Goulart's speech, the troops rose in Minas Gerais; a force of 10,000 soldiers marched off toward Rio. Then came the pause planned by the plotters, and with it a gap in the news that set all of Brazil speculating: had the revolt failed? Was it all a false alarm? The next morning, Goulart responded by ordering the 1st Infantry...
Traditional Step. The Johnson Administration can do little to lower retail prices, but it will try to close part of the gap between them and livestock prices, as a starter has ordered more beef served in school lunch programs and more distributed to needy families. Cattlemen meanwhile are taking a traditional step toward the same end: an estimated 2,000,000 head are being held back from market. But a paradox lies here too. Bad weather or economic pinches could force cattlemen to dump the held-back cattle, thus tumbling prices even lower than they...
Because only the very able few can get a university education in Africa, Ashby said, the impact on the college graduate "is something inconceivable." He is separated from his traditional way of life, and inevitably finds that the gap between himself and his people is very great...