Word: decathloner
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...backwoodsmen (or wildcats, as they're officially sobriqueted) feature a hot-shooting sophomore in the corner, Jeff Bannister. A high school All-American and 1966 national AAU pentathlon champion, Bannister is aiming for next summer's Olympics in the decathlon. But right now, he's got more important things to worry about--like beating Harvard...
...flick, a comedy called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, calls for the heroine to play a swinging East German lady decathlon champ who decides to take it on the lam from that draggy country. Zoom!-she pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall. To get in shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke...
Republicans racked up only slightly less impressive victories in the congressional races. The Democrats lost ten of their 48 Representatives, among them such Capitol Hill veterans as California's seven-termer Harlan Hagen, defeated by Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias. In Senate contests no incumbent was defeated, and the Democrats had only one loss, the Oregon seat of retiring Maurine Neuberger that was captured by Mark Hatfield...
...list goes on: Rafer Johnson won the decathlon in the Rome Olympics right after his cover (Aug. 29, 1960); Shotputter Parry O'Brien (Dec. 3, 1956) captured the Olympic Gold Medal in Melbourne that month; and Oscar Robertson (Feb. 17, 1961) is still among basketball's top scorers...
...meter dash in 10.3 sec. (just .3 sec. off the world record), and Hodge, who still goes to college, can heave the 16-lb. shot 56 ft. 7½ in. - good enough by itself to coin an Olympic gold medal in 1948. Last month at the U.S. decathlon championships in Salina, Kans., Toomey scored 8,234 points under the complicated performance tables, and Hodge scored 8,130 to put both over the old world record of 8,089 set in 1963 by Nationalist China's C. K. Yang. Last week at the Los Angeles Times International Games, Russ reversed...