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STILLWATER, Okla., Dec. 2-- The top-ranking Oklahoma Sooners, prepping for the Sugar Bowl, relied on the superb passing of Quarterback Claude Arnold today to defeat Oklahoma A. M., 41-- 14, for their thirty-first straight victory.
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 2--Sammy Snead and Jack Burke Jr. tied for the lead at the end of the third round of the $10,000 Miami open golf tournament today with nineunder-par 201s.
The seventeen-story apartment building at 41 Park Avenue was completed last week with only two of its 120 apartments unrented, according to Samuel R. Firestone, vice president of Pease Elliman, agents.
St. John's comfortably and Long Island University by the narrowest margin possible were the victors in last night's college basketball double-header at Madison Square Garden.
1950Alberto Juantorena, Cuban runner[†]
Alberto Juantorena is a Cuban former runner. He is the only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles, which he achieved in 1976. He was ranked as the world's best runner in the 400 m in 1974 and 1976–1978, and in the 800 m in 1976–77, and was chosen as the Track & Field News Athlete of the Year in 1976 and 1977.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]