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...Arsenault won the jumping crown in the boys' division with leaps of 90 and 94 feet, nosing out Skip Smaha who scared 95 feet for the longest jump in his class...
Private Refuge. The petty-seeming issue of the trip is actually part of a wider, more complex problem. Premier Constantine Karamanlis, 56, is a tough, staunchly antiCommunist, pro-NATO politician who in his eight years in office (the longest tenure for any Greek prime minister) has given his country stable government and a considerable measure of economic progress. But leftists and liberals attack him for allegedly having rigged the 1961 elections, which returned him to power for a fourth term, and for keeping about 1,000 political prisoners jailed who were arrested more than 15 years ago during the country...
Those Foolish Fellows. What makes Mickey so good? Might, mainly. Most lady pros are plunk-plunk, soft, accurate hitters. Mickey is strictly wham-wham, the longest driver in the ladies' game today, perhaps the longest ever. "She hits the ball farther than Babe Zaharias ever did," says Veteran Pro Louise Suggs, "and she gets her distance entirely in the air. Babe got hers entirely on the roll." Mickey averages 225 yds. off the tee, often gets the ball out 270 yds.: with the help of a 40-m.p.h. wind in the Dallas Civitan Open in 1960, she actually overdrove...
What the Nile is to Egypt, the Colorado is to the Great American Desert. Without the waters of the mighty Colorado, fifth longest of U.S. rivers, prosperous cities and fertile farms would wither and be layered over with wind-blown sand. Long before white men invaded the desert, Indian tribes constructed elaborate canals to irrigate their fields with Colorado River water. Today, by way of a vast system of aqueducts, canals and tunnels, the Colorado quenches the megalopolitan thirst of Los Angeles and keeps a million acres of Southern California farm land green in what used to be an arid...
...very least to enable the College to coax from the departments a new pledge of loyalty. For it is still an open question whether a four-year college "experience" makes any sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest record of service in General Education. As Chairman of the Faculty Gen Ed Committee, he is responsible for recruiting teachers for new courses. In addition, he teaches in Hum 2 ("Epic and Drama") and Hum 3 ("The Experience of the Drama...