Word: davises
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The huffmg-and-puffing world of the shotputting whales has never seen-and has certainly never heard-anything like it. Almost every week, it seems, someone heaves a shot farther than before. The 1959 distance of 63 ft. 4 in. achieved by two-time Olympic Champion Parry O'Brien...
" Both Davis and Long enthusiastically share Nieder's feeling toward O'Brien. Says Davis, a physical education major (among his courses: Methods of Baseball, Square Dancing, Driver Education) at San Fernando Valley State College: "O'Brien psyches me out. He pretends you're not there. When...
The Old Champ. Among them, Nieder, Davis and Long hope to win the three shotputting places on the U.S. Olympic team, and thereby keep O'Brien from going to Rome this summer. As for O'Brien, he professes complete confidence that the plot against him will fail. "So...
But last weekend, the Sultan of Shot was not the big show. At the Drake Relays, he left Davis in his dust with a throw of 63 ft. 1¼ in., but saw his meet record clipped by Nieder's 63 ft. 11 ½ in. Strangely mellowed by defeat...
Off on another political hayride, Louisiana voters elected Guitarist-Composer James H. (You Are My Sunshine) Davis, 59, as their Governor for the next four years. But no sooner were the returns in than rumbles were heard from the direction of outgoing Governor Earl Kemp Long, 64. With some $7...