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...Greece, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, Holland, Pakistan, Panama, India...
...track team. A year ago his coach decided that Santee's best chance in the Olympics was at a distance: 5,000 meters, where the competition for places on the team was not so tough. Wes made the grade in the U.S. trials but was a flop in Finland, where his slow time failed even to qualify him for the final. Dogged Wes came home and decided to be a miler...
...fortnight ago. But there was no real competition for him. no one to test his utmost. In the Compton (Calif.) Invitation Meet last week, Santee got the competition he needed: Belgium's Gaston Reiff, holder of world records at two miles, 2,000 and 3,000 meters, and Finland's Denis Johansson, his country's national titleholder, who has outrun some of Paavo Nurmi's records...
Married. Armi Kuusela, 18, Finland's blonde, blue-eyed winner of last year's "Miss Universe" contest; and Virgilio Hilario, 25, well-to-do Filipino real-estate heir; in Tokyo...
...defeated favored Veikko Karvonen of Finland, who finished second, and Sweden's Kari Gosta Leandersson, who placed third. In fourth place was Katsuo Nishida of Japan, and Johnny Kelley of Boston University, in fifth place, was the top American on the 26-mile course...