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Meanwhile, out in the soggy New Jersey marshes, the Crimson hammer throwers followed suit and took third and fifth. Colin Ball sailed his projectile 183 feet for the bronze, and Al Quintero, in his first season hurling for the varsity, reached 159 feet for fifth...
...must say, the most paralyzing pain. . . as if someone had hit you with a hammer." Thus did the nation's premier convalescent describe last week just what it felt like to have been shot in the chest. Admitting that the assassination attempt a month ago "still seems unreal," Ronald Reagan recalled that at first he thought he had been hurt only by being shoved into the limousine by Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr. "When I suddenly found I was coughing up blood, we both decided that maybe I'd broken a rib and punctured a lung...
...sort of assassination that has become a terrifying commonplace in war-torn El Salvador. One evening last January, two American labor lawyers, Michael Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, were having dinner in San Salvador's Sheraton Hotel with José Rodolfo Viera head of the country's controversial land reform program. Suddenly, two men armed with automatic pistols walked into the dining room and opened fire, killing the three men, then turned and unperturbedly walked out. Like thousands of other killings, these seemed destined to go unsolved. Last week, almost four months after the murders, there appeared...
...outstanding thinclad performance of the afternoon ironically came in the men's hammer throw--one of the two events that traditionally is not calculated into the overall standings. On his first throw of the season. Crimson hurler Colin Bell chalked up a loss of 58.56 meters. That mark eclipsed the nearest competitor by a full six meters and qualified Bell for the nationals and the IC4As...
Though Bell's performance did not yield the American team another point, Bell was compensated for his effort when he was awarded the Boal Hammer Award. The award, which was first given two years ago, is named in honor of Ayers Boal '00. the first winner of the event in the trans-Atlantic competition...