Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twisting Before Breakfast. All in all, Britons agreed that it had been the jolliest royal clambake in memory. It was happily unmarred by the malicious cluckings that counterpointed Princess Margaret's marriage to Photographer Tony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. And, Londoners noted proudly, it attracted 70 members of Europe's royal families...
...both hurdles events. In the 120-yard high hurdles, he sped to a superb 14.2 victory, but the strong wind prevented the time from counting as a record. His 220-yard low hurdles time, however, was a comparatively slow 26.0 seconds. In the javelin, Tom Holcombe and Hobie Armstrong took second and third behind Hatch's throw of 186 ft. 6 in. to give the Crimson a sweep of the event...
Harvard divided the other field events with the Crusaders. Jay Mahoney won a poor pole vault contest followed by the Crimson's George Winter. Hobie Armstrong and Chukwama Asikiwe took the hop-step-and-jump. But Holy Cross took both places in the high jump and their only triple winner, Dick Malberger, won the broad jump. In the absence of Aggrey Awori, Malberger also won both sprints, though sophomore John Parker took seconds...
Except for the high jump, which the Crusaders' Kevin O'Brien will undoubtedly win, the field events should all go to the Crimson. Chris Ohiri won both the broad jump and hop-step-and-jump against Princeton, and Hobie Armstrong, Aggrey Awori, and Chukwuma Azikiwe provide more depth in those events. Art Doten, Art Croasdale, and Loren Clayman swept the weight toss against the Crusaders in the winter, and should take the hammer and shot today. John Bakkensen, who set a University discus record at the Penn Relays on Friday, should easily win that event...
...frantically planting trees to stop mud slides. Then public funds appropriated for the project mysteriously started turning up in private pockets; eight top Walker Hill officials are currently under arrest or investigation for embezzlement and bribery. So bad was Walker Hill's credit rating that Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, whose band got $60,000 for playing the opening two-week stand, "didn't even think of making plane reservations to come here until our fee cleared the bank back home...