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...their satellites: Russia's Nina Romaschkova, who set a women's world record in the discus; Russia's cylindrical female Shotputter Galina Zybina, who heaved the 8-lb. iron ball for another women's world mark of 50 ft. 2.58 in.; Czechoslovakia's Emil and Ingrova Zatopek, the most sensational husband & wife team in Olympic history...
...same day that Ingrova set a women's Olympic javelin mark of 165 ft. 7.05 in., husband Emil cracked the Olympic 5,000-meter record in 14 min. 6 sec. With a 10,000-meter record already in the bag, he entered the 26-mile marathon three days later, broke another Olympic record in 2 hrs. 23 min. 3.2 sec. to become the only Olympic athlete ever to sweep the three distance races...
...whites whom Nationalist Minister of Justice Charles Swart happens to dislike is voluble little Emil Solomon ("Solly") Sachs, 50, former secretary of Johannesburg's militantly anti-Communist Garment Workers' Union. Solly's principal crime in the minister's eyes is that his union has a mixed membership...
Broken Records. After the first day's events, the Russian smiles were broader than ever. In the first track & field final, Nina Romaschkova, a blonde Russian Amazon, stepped up and heaved the discus 168 ft. 8½ in., an Olympic record. Minutes later, Czechoslovakia's loose-jointed Emil Zatopek, who runs as if fighting off a seizure of St. Vitus' dance, dashed through the tape to win the 10,000-meter run final in 29 min. 17 sec., smashing his own 1948 Olympic record...
...Pitcher Emil ("Dutch") Leonard of the 1952 Cubs...