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Actually, the meet will give McCurdy an opportunity to appraise the potential of his outdoor team. The team which swept through its indoor season may be hard pressed to maintain its victory streak, since outdoor meets include four events not included in indoor programs--discus, javelin, 120 high hurdles, and 220 low hurdles. In addition, there are two dashes, instead...
...Discus Thrower. For four days last week the leaders of the U.S. greeted Giovanni Gronchi with unusual warmth and attention. Gronchi had consultations with Eisenhower, dined and wined with Dulles and Nixon, talked international labor with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany. Guards of honor presented arms when Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico...
...rose garden of the White House, Gronchi presented to Eisenhower a bronze reproduction of The Discus Thrower and a grey granite pillar surmounted by a white marble capital. In thanks, Eisenhower said: "As you know, we have millions of citizens of Italian derivation...
...spikes can rip across the wet soil and oars can slash the choppy waves. At last muscles can hurt after an afternoon of rugby and lungs can ache after hours of lacrosse. The discus and the javelin slice through somehow cleaner air and the ping of the tennis court seems a truer sound as the air turns warmer...
...Yardlings have shown strength in every department and are undefeated so far this season. In their last meeting, the freshmen defeated And-over, 70-38, as Carl Pescosolido won both the discus and the shotput events...