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Dick Gilbane, who threw the discus 158 ft. last year will be joined in that event by Steve Niemi...
...desire and need to preserve and improve their job chances elsewhere. Why did The Crimson rely on these misleading sources? Not because any senior faculty members would have refused to talk. Most of us were never approached. To be sure, had we been interviewed, we would have refused to discus personal details and particular cause, because these are properly confidential, not in the interests of the tenure faculty but of the candidates themselves. What is more, the operation of a fair, honest procedure of evaluation of intellectual and pedagogical qualifications depends on confidentially; very few people, whether inside or outside...
...Arab group stopped to blacken their faces with charcoal or put on hoods, and pull weapons out of their bags. Then they set off toward the Israeli quarters at 31 Connollystrasse, named, in an Olympic tradition, after U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly and his Czech-born wife, Olga, a discus thrower...
...events. The West German crowd applauded handsomely (even for the East Germans) as each nation trooped its colors to dance-band music, which included When the Saints Go Marching In for the U.S. and Song for Natasha, in salute to the Soviet Union. The U.S. contingent was led by Discus Thrower Olga Connolly, 39, the mother of four, who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1956 to marry U.S. Olympian Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. In a tradition set by the 1908 U.S. Olympic team, she did not dip the American flag before the grandstand* and matched strength with...
...lost a 110-meter hurdle race in two seasons. Then, in the final at the U.S. trials, he was jarred off balance and finished third, behind Tom Hill and Willie Davenport. Milburn still ranks as the favorite, but he is clearly not invincible. In the discus, Jay Silvester of Orem, Utah, was the world record holder beaten by Al Oerter in 1968. He holds the record again (224 ft. 5 in.) as he goes to Munich, and Oerter has retired. But Silvester's top competition, Ricky Bruch of Sweden, has not. Once notorious for his temper tantrums...