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...time bettered the old cage record, set in 1962 by Army's RobinLingle, by nearly three seconds. Shaw finished second, 25 yards behind the swift Englander. McDonald was fourth...
...surprise performances. The mile run was supposed to have been a duel between West Point's Hep champ, Bob McDonald, and the Crimson's sophomore Roy Shaw. But Baker, running brilliantly, left both of them in the dust...
...protest stage some three years ago, when brow-shrouding male tresses bloomed all over the classroom, they drew down a withering fire from the academic Establishment. Today most of the hirsute scholars are back at their desks, tolerated if not entirely approved. "We ignore it," says C. W. McDonald, dean of men at Western Washington State College. "We do absolutely nothing against long hair even if it's down to their heels...
Meanwhile, James E. McDonald, a University of Arizona atmospheric physicist, studied the records of Project Blue Book, interviewed witnesses around the U.S. and in Australia. His conclusion places him farther out on the saucer's edge than any other U.S. scientist. "I think that UFOs are the No. 1 problem of world science," he says. "I'm afraid that the evidence points to no other acceptable hypothesis than the extraterrestrial. The amount of evidence is overwhelmingly real." Both Hynek and McDonald cite the example of earlier scientists who for years had little patience with recurring stories about stones...
Other scientists who have reviewed UFO cases still agree with Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, a colleague of McDonald's at the University of Arizona, who insists that until better evidence is presented, the entire subject is "fanciful." Astronomer Carl Sagan of Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory says that "at the present time, there is no evidence that unambiguously connects the various flying-saucer sightings with extraterrestrial activity...