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...after his 17th birthday, New Zealander Murray Halberg learned a hard fact of life. He was playing a game of Rugby football for Avondale College when he was brought to earth with a hard-driving tackle. Halberg had a hard time getting back on his feet. His left side was paralyzed, his left arm useless. Halberg, a natural lefthander, had to learn to do everything all over again with his right. An enthusiastic runner, he was told he might never run again. Halberg did not believe the doctors. As soon as he was up and about, he began...
...record. Why not up to the mile?" Whitfield even figured he had a good chance to become the first man ever to run the four-minute mile: "Why not? I can run as fast as anybody else, and I feel that both my physical and mental conditioning are perfect." Halberg was modestly and remarkably uninterested in the four-minute mile: "I don't care one way or the other. I certainly won't strain myself to do it." In short, Halberg was just interested in winning...
...start of the race, with some 31,000 fans watching Whitfield, Halberg jumped to a quick lead. Running with short, choppy strides in sharp contrast to Whitfield's flowing glide, Halberg built up a 15-yd. advantage at the end of the first quarter. He kept right on increasing the advantage through each quarter. At the end, without ever bothering to look back and without ever being pressed, Halberg short-strided across the finish line in a respectable 4:10. Whitfield was timed in 4:16.7, a full 35 yds. behind...
Whitfield. now 30, plans to keep right on running. Halberg, 20, has other plans. "I've got to put my career first," he says. "As soon as track interferes with my career, I'll drop track." Now in his second year at Auckland's Teachers' Training College, Halberg wants to be a teacher "in a primary school, where I can work with youngsters...
...mustached, kewpie-like face thrust aggressively forward, Gus Hall (real name Arno Gust Halberg), chairman of the Ohio Communist Party, sneered: "It sounds more like a kangaroo court than a court of the United States. I have heard more law and more constitutional law in kangaroo courts." Judge Medina ordered him to jail...