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Baker took the lead early, as he usually does. But Norris stayed surprisingly close. Then the Eagles' captain, who runs with his arms flailing and legs wobbling, took over. He zipped ahead of Baker on the next-to-last lap and sped home for a new Cage record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Pastes B.C., Dropping Only Two Events | 1/10/1966 | See Source »

Tonight's contest is the Crimson's next-to-last game before vacation. The quintet plays at Tufts Friday, then competes in the Motor City Tournament in Detroit and plays at Western Ontario over the holidays...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Quintet Should Trounce Terriers' Luckless Squad | 12/15/1965 | See Source »

...team that started out like a lion (with victories over Missouri and Mississippi) and wound up like a lamb (losing to Houston and Archrival Tennesee), Norton completed 113 out of 214 passes for 1,893 ards and eleven touchdowns. He injured a knee in Kentucky's next-to-last game, had to undergo an operation. The bad knee makes Norton a questionable commodity, but he is still "the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Pick of the Pros | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...Last season the Yankees got great performances from Mickey Mantle (.302, 35 ), Elston Howard (.313), Whitey Word (17-6), and Mel Stottlemyre (9-3), and won the pennant on the next-to-last day of the season. While the White Sox, Orioles, and Indians have gained talent and experience during the past year, the Yanks have just gotten a little older and their joints a little creakier. Howard is . Mantle is 33, and apparently his ailing are still in extremely bad shape. Ford is 26, and needed an arm operation last winter. Stottlemyre was brilliant in last year's stretch...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Chicago White Sox Will Win Pennant As Yankee Dynasty Crumbles to Ruin | 4/14/1965 | See Source »

There are easier ways to get from Portugal to France, but none more popular-or expensive. The truck is the next-to-last leg of a sordid underground railroad traveled every month by some 2,500 Portuguese peasants being smuggled into France to look for work. The price of a one-way ticket: between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: The Hard Way to France | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

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