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...every way it was a wonderful foot race. In at least one way it told more about the 1960 Olympics than any other single event. For nearly three laps, the winner-a hawk-nosed, crane-legged fellow with a familiar, loping stride-stayed back with the pack in the i.soo-meter race. Then, with disheartening ease, he moved past the leaders and began to draw away. Rounding the last turn, he saw his coach waving a white shirt as a signal that he had a chance to break his own world record of 3:36. Thereupon Australia's Herb...
Running for gold-medal glory, Wilma Rudolph regularly got away to good starts with her arms pumping in classic style, then smoothly shifted gears to a flowing stride that made the rest of the pack seem to be churning on a treadmill. She tied the world record of 11.3 sec. in the 100 meters and won the final by three yds. She set an Olympic record of 23.2 sec. in the 200 meters and won the final by another three yds. Then, running with three of her Tigerbelle teammates from Tennessee State, Wilma anchored the winning 400-meter relay team...
...loll down to his chest. "Come on, Ray!" yelled U.S. Olympic Basketball Coach Pete Newell in a voice that carried to the track. "Come on, boy. He's fading." As though he had been slapped, Yang snapped his head up and increased the pace. Johnson painfully lengthened his stride...
...Machine Tool Exposition and the Production Engineering Show. The new breed-and the stars of the shows-were nearly 100 machine tools of a wholly new kind, the brilliant offspring of the marriage of the automated machine and the computer's electronic brain. They represented a giant stride toward the ultimate goal of man's industrial progress: machines able to run themselves...
...Winner of the event was Russia's Vasily Rudenkov at 220 ft. 1% in. ¶In the men's 200 meters, a lanky Italian chemistry student named Livio Berut-ti, 21, rocked U.S. prestige by tying the world record of 20.5 sec. and finishing a stride in front of Ohio's Les Carney, whose time of 20.6 tied the 1956 Olympic record. The U.S. had not lost the event since 1928. After plodding home dead-last in sixth place, California's Ray Norton admitted that the pressure in Rome was just too much for him: "Nothing...