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...when he broke the 4-min. barrier in 1954, and France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed to call out intermediate lap times had fallen down on the job. Shucks. "I could have run faster," Ryun insisted...
Harvard's mile relay team beat B.C. and finally broke 3.20 as three men ran legs under 50 seconds. Huvelle surpassed Robinson's anchor lap of 49.3 with a fast 49 flat, and Trey Burns sped to a 49.7. Frank Haggerty, who is not a 440 man, finished...
...known agitators. They pinned up pictures of Ky and other generals on the stakes used for public executions, together with a sign that read: "This is the plaza of demagogy. Ky, Thieu and Co. must be executed." With that, the Buddhist monks slipped into their chauffeur-driven cars and sped away, while the agitators used megaphones to turn the assembly into an antigovernment, anti-American, anti-war parade through Saigon. Their banners, in English, were often antigrammatical as well. Samples: "Down with U.S. Obstructions," "Our Nation's Sovereignty Must Be Conserved," and "Down with the Americans' Attempt...
...through, the President reconstructed the speech with the help of No. 1 White House Aide Jack Valenti and Press Secretary Bill Moyers, finally wound up penciling in many of the words and phrases himself. He was still making changes with his felt-tipped pen as his chauffeured limousine sped him from the White House to Capitol Hill...
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...