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...climax had been build ing. Every meet seemed to produce new headlines, new records, new prodigies. Under challenge, the veterans slowly sweated their way back to top form. Last week 221 teen-agers and oldtimers, the finest group of trackmen in U.S. history, met for two days at Palo Alto, Calif, to struggle for the precious places on the team that will go to the Rome Olympics this August. "The competition will be the best it has ever been," predicted U.S. Olympic Track Coach Larry Snyder...
...Olympics themselves. The brutally simple conditions of the meet guaranteed drama: the first three men in each event made the team; the rest did not. It made no difference if the losers were national champions, previous Olympic gold-medal winners or world record holders. Key survivors of Palo Alto's long trial by fire...
...meet's most dramatic moment was its very last. Ever since a bad leg kept him off the 1956 Olympic squad, Pole Vaulter Don Bragg, 29, had pointed for the 1960 team. At Palo Alto, Bragg sprinted down the runway, set his pole, hauled hard with his weight lifter's arms, and soared over the bar at 15 ft. 9¼ in. to break by an inch the world record of Marine Bob Gutowski. Then started one of the wildest victory dances in track history. Bellowing with delight, Bragg tossed wood shavings in the air, waved his arms...
...blocks-and hidden in the pack coming out of the final turn. "It was then or never," Morrow said later. "I poured it on." The leg held. Slowly, Morrow closed ground on even the great Ray Norton to finish fourth and earn his invitation to Palo Alto. "Give Morrow five more days in the sun," said a veteran official, "and those youngsters had better be holding some hole cards...
Olympic Trials (CBS, 5-7 p.m.). The Rev. Bob Richards, two-time Olympic gold-medal winner, helps report the finals of the 1960 U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Palo Alto, Calif...