Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peter Snell of New Zealand won the Olympic 1500-meter run in 3:38.1 this morning. America's Dyrol Burleson finished far back...
...Dyrol Burleson...
...pulled leg muscle. But they were hardly missed when 200-Meter Man Henry Carr obligingly boomed home first in the 100, then in the 200, finally ran a leg on a 1,600-meter relay team that won by 70 yds. Milers Tom O'Hara and Dyrol Burleson had to scratch from the 1,500-meter run; so Jim Grelle got to tick off that one. Half a dozen others were walking wounded: California Schoolteacher Mike Larrabee forgot an injured pancreas (courtesy of a student's accidental judo chop) long enough to breeze through the 400 meter; World...
...Rice University Star Fred Hansen: a new world record in the pole vault, with a leap of 17 ft. 1 in. (the old record: 17 ft. ¾ in., by Miami's John Pennel), at a track meet in Houston. > Oregon's Dyrol Burleson: a one-step victory over Loyola of Chicago's Tom O'Hara in the mile run at the Compton, Calif., Relays. Burleson was clocked in 3 min. 57.4 sec., and the next seven finishers all cracked 4 min. too. Wichita's Jim Ryun, 17, came in eighth...
After the presidential phone call, Burleson's Boll Weevils met again, found they simply could not agree with Byrnes. "I don't like to call the amendment a phony," grumbled Burleson, "but it's a subterfuge-it will not do what it purports to do." Most of the Boll Weevils thereupon decided to vote against the Byrnes amendment...