Word: discusions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when Russia's light-fingered lady discus thrower, Nina Ponomaryeva, could lift a couple of hats from a London department store (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956) and rate hardly a slap on the wrist from her commissar chaperons. Nina was needed for the Olympics. But the party line has changed. Last week Czechoslovakia's table-tennis champion, Ivan Andreadis, was "temporarily disqualified" from the national team for "unsporting behavior." His bourgeois crime: Ivan "forgot" to report a large hunk of his earnings...
...Delegates to the national American Athletic Union convention did away with a couple of bits of unnecessary nonsense. They banned the "Spanish style" javelin throw (in which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic Hurdler Lee Calhoun will be an amateur once more. Calhoun's professional transgression: he was married on TV's gift-happy Bride and Groom show...
...track and field stars ignored midsummer heat, coolly cracked records. In Cleveland, Mrs. Olga Fikotova Connolly, the ex-Czech Olympic star who broke the Iron Curtain to marry U.S. Olympic Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, scored at a national Amateur Athletic Union meet by breaking the U.S. women's discus record. Her throw: 147 ft. 8 in. In Naantali, Finland, England's Derek Ibbotson ran his fourth sub-four-minute mile (3:58.7), was followed by Finland's Olavi Vuorisalo (3:59.1). In Oslo, Pennsylvania's Josh Culbreath broke the 440-yd. hurdles world record...
Rhodes Scholar Art Siler, who captained last year's Crimson varsity, has a distinct edge in his specialty, the discus, as he faces Elis Dick Winterbauer and Bill Stack, neither of whom has come within ten feet of his best toss. In the shot, however, Winterbauer and another Yale freshman, Bill Markel, rate the edge...
...following evening, Neil Muncaster will throw the discus, while both French Anderson and Jim Cairns will vie for the 880 title. Dave Rosenthal will run the low hurdles. Cairns, Anderson, Wharton and Mike Robertson will team up for the mile relay...