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LISE HOFMANN Palo Alto...
...leather-topped bar and zebra-striped divans, they hired a good sound engineer to build an acoustically perfect room. In a typical program, Ruff and Mitchell, assisted by Composer-Pianist Robert Helps and Drummer Charlie Smith, presented the U.S. premiére of Paul Hindemith's Sonata for Alto Horn and Piano, followed it with a Ruff-Mitchell composition titled Fugue for a Jazz Trio. The club features a regular string quartet from Yale, and will draw heavily on the talents of such Yale faculty members as Violinist Howard Boatwright, Pianist Seymour Fink. Like their Cleveland counterparts, Ruff...
Some established stars lost out alto gether. Broad Jumper Gregg Bell, 29, a gold-medal winner in the Melbourne Games of 1956, finished a frustrated fourth. Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski failed to qualify. Toughest of all was the disappointment in the shotput. Army Lieut. Bill Nieder, 26, holds the world record at 65 ft. 7 in. but, hampered by a bad right knee, he reverted to his old line-drive style of toss and managed only a weak 61 ft. 9¾ in. to finish fourth behind Dallas Long (63 ft. 3¾ in.), Parry O'Brien...
...battle of Palo Alto came the finest U.S. Olympic track team in history. But the rest of the world has also improved sharply since 1956's Melbourne Olympics. As a team, Russia will be the biggest threat to the continuing domination of track events by the U.S. With their trials still to come, Russian coaches last week were speaking guardedly of their young stars but praised a pair of sprinters named Leonid Bartenyev and Edwin Ozolin. Other sprinters around the world are also pointing for the U.S., including Germany's Armin Hary and Britain's Peter Radford...
...proved at Palo Alto last week, past records are of little help when trackmen are fighting it out in the stretch. If American athletes rise to the occasion in Rome as they have always done, the U.S. should not fall off the gold standard...