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...Dash. So far this season, four men-San Jose State's Dennis Johnson, Villanova's Frank Budd, Oregon's Harry Jerome, Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes-have equaled Mel Patton's 13-year-old. 9.3-sec. record. Somewhere between Manhattan and Moscow, one of the quartet may well set a new mark. Best prospect: Johnson, a sinewy Jamaican sprinter who has already been clocked in 9.2 sec. while running ahead of a helpful tail wind...
Only three of the Institute scholars come from outside Massachusetts. Miss Alice L. Dement, of San Jose, Cal., plans to finish a book encouraging gifted women to continue intellectual work. Mrs. Carol McCormick Crosswell, a lawyer from New York, will publish a work dealing with the techniques of business abroad. Miss Alma Wittlin, from Albuquerque, N.M., will study improved methods for teaching science to elementary school children...
...stride in front of Mel Patton's sizzling 9.3 sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. Although ten men have matched his time,* no one yet has raced past Patton into the record book. But this year the old champ has a new, more dangerous challenger: San Jose State's cocky Dennis Johnson, a whippet-fast Jamaican who is undefeated in eleven straight races, and this month became the first runner in history to tie Patton's world record four times in a single season. Says Johnson: "I should break the record this summer...
...entered Bakersfield (Calif.) College, and cut his running times to a creditable 9.4 sec. in the 100, 20.6 in the 220. Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily, was eliminated in the loo-meter quarter-finals-Johnson transferred to San Jose State to work under canny Track Coach Lloyd ("Bud") Winter, who developed U.S. Sprinters Ray Norton and Bobby Poynter...
...Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, will study LeCorbusier's preliminary sketches to determine for the Corporation whether construction estimates at reasonable...