Word: coliseums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago, Snell ran in the Los Angeles Coliseum Relays against two of the U.S.'s fleetest milers: Dyrol Burleson (best time: 3 min. 57.6 sec.) and Jim Grelle (3 min. 58.9 sec.). Burleson, who had beaten Snell twice before, was confident of victory, and for the first three-quarters of the race, it looked as though he might win. Snell was maintaining a 5-yd. lead, but the lanky Oregonian is well known for his finishing kick. With only an eighth of a mile to go, Snell lowered his head and started sprinting. By the time Burleson reacted...
...Zealand's Peter Snell, 23, world's fastest miler (3:54.4), over the U.S.'s best, Oregon's Dyrol Burleson, in a new American record time of 3:56.1; at Los Angeles Coliseum Relays. Burleson clung to the pace for three laps, but on the final go-round Snell turned on his famous kick, sprinted the last 220 yds. in a blazing 24.5 sec., hit the tape more than...
...front. Also at the Coliseum: a new world's record in the shotput by University of Southern California's Dallas Long with a throw of 65 ft. 10½ in.; a new world's record in the discus by two-time Olympic Champion Al Oerter with a throw of 200 ft. 5½ in., first time the 200-ft. mark has been reached...
...will meet face to face at the Fresno, Calif., West Coast Relays this week, and again at the Los Angeles Coliseum next week. Tork's goal: 17 ft., which seems not too far out of reach considering the fact that he narrowly missed 16 ft. 5 in. just after setting the new record...
...sleek item in the Sixth International Automobile Show, which opened in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, was turned back by its original purchaser because it gave him cold feet. A politician had ordered the grey, four-passenger Fiat 2300 coupe as last year's Christmas present to his wife, then canceled the order when he remembered the number of voters in Detroit...