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...Gamma radiation travels with the speed of light and is gone instantly. Heat radiation lasts as long as three seconds (which may be time enough to duck into a doorway or sprint a couple of steps around a corner). The blast or shock wave races a mile in five seconds. After an air burst, stay where you are for at least a minute, and watch out for falling debris. After an underwater burst, the danger from radioactive mist may last for several hours...
Defeated Hopes. With the distance cut to two miles, the sprinting Eastern crews were conceded a better chance in the varsity race over the Westerners, who are trained for endurance. As the toothpick-shaped shells slid to their starting marks, Eastern hopes were centered on M.I.T.'s powerful sprint champions, huskiest boatload on the water. But at the mile mark it was already apparent that the East was outclassed again...
...Crimson, on the other hand, has beaten all challengers except M.I.T. in the E.A.R.C. 2000-meter sprint, which the Engineers won by one tenth of a second. Yale placed sixth in this regatta...
...Crimson oarsmen's lead over their rivals that they never had to sprint. Still they recorded their best time of the season for a mile and three-quarter course, 8:55.3 as against Cornell's 9:04.5. Rowing conditions were good; the water was slightly lumpy but there was no headwind...
Walsh easily won the 440 in 54.5 seconds. The feature of this race, however, was the stretch sprint of Welch, who drove up through the pack in the last turn to take second place...