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...Bakersfield, Calif...
...surprised and pleased, though, that it worked so well. Retirement housing has become a major element in the Del E. Webb Corp., and it has already built similar developments at Kern City, Calif, (just outside Bakersfield), and at Sun City. Fla. (17 miles southeast of Tampa). Sun City, Calif. (20 miles south of Riverside), which opened officially four weeks ago, has already sold 833 units...
...twelve, and caught the eye of Jamaican Track Star Herb McKenley. The ex-Olympian painstakingly tutored Johnson for six years, coached him to Jamaican high school records of 9.6 sec. in the 100, 21.1 sec. in the 220, and 50.7 sec. in the 440. In 1959 he entered Bakersfield (Calif.) College, and cut his running times to a creditable 9.4 sec. in the 100, 20.6 in the 220. Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily, was eliminated in the loo-meter quarter-finals-Johnson transferred to San Jose State to work under canny Track Coach...
...Poly remembered Halfback Vic Hall, an alternate 400-meter sprinter on the 1960 Olympic team. Vic wore contact lenses and had not wanted to play football, but the weak team needed him for his exceptional speed, so he had agreed to play. There was Curtis Hill, an end from Bakersfield, a smiling, studious, religious boy who had walked the campus squeezing a tennis ball to strengthen his wrists. His friends recalled that he had hoped to play pro ball with the San Francisco 49ers. There was Tackle Rodney Baughn, who was engaged to marry a Cal Poly coed...
...Bakersfield, Calif...