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Ladies First. At the end of the first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...
...several thousand feet; Camp Fatigue, when at 15,000 ft. the altitude started to hit them; Balcony Camp, up another 1,800 ft. and just big enough for their tent with a 7,000-ft. drop below. The weather started to worsen, and they decided on a gamble: a dash to the top, even though it was 3,500 ft. away...
...Their dash made them look more like drunks in a conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had been planted on the summit in 1947 by Bradford Washburn, a mountain-climbing geographer. Three men burst into tears. "Do you realize," gasped Buckingham, "do you realize what we've done? Four hackers-we've made a great ascent, maybe the greatest outside of South America...
Since he swept the short dash events at the 1956 Olympic Games, 23-year-old Bobby Morrow, late of Texas' Abilene Christian College, has been recognized as the world's No. 1 sprinter. But this year Morrow has won occasionally but lost often-not because he is running any slower but because a new crop of sprinters has appeared to make a wholesale onslaught on the 9.3-sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. So far this year three of Morrow's challengers-Bill Woodhouse, Ray Norton and Roscoe Cook-have equaled the world record...
...about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last three semesters. Winn is president of the 7,000-member student body, also wrestles, swims, plays golf, and runs the 100-yd. dash. ¶ Mrs. Bianca C. Stewart, 22, of New York City, has been blind for twelve years. A dean's list and Phi Beta Kappa Senior at Queens College, she majors in English and plans to get an M.A. at Columbia University for an eventual teaching career...