Word: decathlon
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...Getting off his blocks with astonishing speed for so hefty a performer, Olympic Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell inched past Olympic Champion Lee Calhoun and set a new indoor record (7 sec.) for the 60-yd. hurdles...
...Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from a Philadelphia defeat by Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell and beat Campbell in Washington with a world indoor record 8.2 sec. time for the 70-yd. high hurdles. Olympian Ira Murchison improved on a disputed victory over Duke's Dave Sime in the 50-yd. dash at Philadelphia by whipping Sime...
...have said nothing about such miscellaneous diversions as safety campaigns, fire-prevention week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...
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...Holder Rafer Johnson. The U.S. Navy's and Indiana U.'s Milt Campbell, runner-up to 1952 Champion Bob Mathias at Helsinki, and an even huskier broth of a boy four years later, had other ideas. "The good Lord," said Campbell, had told him to try the decathlon rather than the hurdles, and the young (23) Negro poured it on in almost every event. Only a surprisingly poor showing in the pole vault (11 ft. 1¾ in.) kept Campbell from breaking Rafer Johnson's world record of 7,985 points. But he scored only 48 points...