TRACK & FIELD
What is a tenth of a second? It is one-eighth of a heartbeat, 1/30th of a sigh, 1/21,000,000,000th of a lifetime. It is, literally, the blinking of an eye an in significant instant to people who measure their lives in minutes or months or 40-hour weeks. But not to Robert Lee Hayes, 21, a husky sprinter from Florida A. & M. University. Hayes is the world's fastest human, a title he holds by virtue of the fragile fact that he can run 60 yds. or 100 yds. a tenth of a second faster than anybody else who...
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