Word: javelin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUHR STEELMEN will make their first big investment in Western Hemisphere ore resources. Group of 13 ore-short West German steel firms, including Krupp complex, will open negotiations this month with Canadian Javelin Ltd., which has huge iron and timber reserves in North. If deal goes through, Germans will put as much as $45 million into new 6,000,000-ton-a-year ore processing plant in southern Labrador...
Neither Dick Wharton in the 440 nor Carl Pescosolido in the javelin placed in the top five, after qualifying for the finals Friday...
Captain Dick Wharton qualified in the quarter mile, winning his heat in 49 seconds flat. Carl Pescosolido edged into the finals in the javelin as he tied for sixth place in the qualifying round with a toss of 136 feet 5 1/2 inches...
...Friday's track meet, Adams dominated the first place winners with seven, but it was the Deacons' depth in all events that eventually won the meet for them. Kirkland actually had only one first place, in the javelin, but it was the only House to score in every event. It finished with 57 points, 5 ahead of second place Adams. Winthrop, Lowell, Eliot, and Dunster were the also-rans. Dudley and Leverett did not score...
...with a toss of 107 feet, 7 inches. Frank Weller of Adams won the broad jump with a leap of 19 feet, 10 1/2 inches while Greg Stone took first place in the shotput at 51-3. Bob Travis won the only first place for Kirkland by taking the javelin with a throw of 157 feet, 10 inches. Frank Weller also won the high jump at 6 feet, 1 3/4 inches a new record in house competition...