Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short of his own pending world record (see box). The high jumpers quit at 6 ft. 10 in., blaming the runway; the pole vaulters called it a day at 16 ft. 6 in., complaining about the wind. Henry Carr, the world record holder in the 200-meter dash, ran fourth in his specialty...
...others at least as enterprising as Boston. For Sprinter Bob Hayes, the "world's fastest human," the Los Angeles Coliseum was Last Chance Gulch; sidelined for three months with a torn hamstring muscle in his thigh, he had to finish at least third in one of the dashes to earn a trip to Tokyo. Hayes did even better: he tied the American record (10.1 sec.) for the 100-meter dash. Like Broad Jumper Boston, Ohio's Rex Cawley had an intriguing theory about breaking world records: don't train. Cawley's worked...
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