Word: discusion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York who attends the University of Texas at El Paso on a track scholarship-and says that he would rather be playing basketball. Last week in Mexico City, each in his own way demonstrated what the Olympic Games are all about. Oerter, the proud veteran, hurled the discus 212 ft. 6½ in., five feet farther than he had ever thrown it in his life. He set a Games record and became the first trackman ever to win his event in four successive Olympics. Beamon, the precocious newcomer, competing in his first Olympics, leaped...
...meter run, Kansas' Jim Ryun finally made it in the 1,500 meters, for which he holds the record. Concentrating on only one event should practically ensure him a gold medal. Two weeks ago, Jay Silvester, a Utah insurance salesman, broke his own world mark in the discus with a toss of 224 ft. 5 in., which is more than 10 ft. farther than anybody else has ever flung the 4-lb. 61-oz. wood and' metal saucer...
...white faces. I didn't even recognize people who had been my teachers, once they were immersed among their own kind." On the debating team at Epsom, he developed a keen gift for words and also played rugby; and in 1952 set the school record for the discus throw (115 ft. 81 in.). He is remembered at Oxford as a good history student?though his grades were only average?and for a bright red MG sports car, with which he frequently burned up the A40 highway between Oxford and London on weekends. It was only one of several high-speed...
Ajootian took third in the hammer and a non-scoring sixth in the shot. Wilson placed-fifth in the hammer and second in the discus, while Hedendahl got third in the discus. Captain-elect Dick Benka lost his first shot put event of the year, finishing a disappointing second to St. John's George Allen...
Second top point getter on the team. Nosal tripled three times in the outdoor season. In the freshmen's narrow win over Princeton, he swept the discus and then settled down against Princeton's top weight men in the hammer and shot. After fouling twice in the hammer, he qualified on the last throw and went...