Word: hammerism
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...slippers, so Gelsey is fanatic. A toe shoe is a rigid object. To get one of her 50 pairs in shape, she brushes Fabulon floor wax into the shoe to make it even harder. Since hard shoes make noise, she next pounds the stiffness out with a tinsmith's hammer. Then she sews on ribbons and bits of elastic. Done? Almost. Just before a performance she pulls the shoes on over socks, brushes them with fast-drying alcohol and removes the socks. Putting the shoes back on, she says, "That's that, the shoes are comfortable, noiseless and hard...
...Lenz continued his mastery of the hammer throw, winning with a toss of 58.42 meters. Tom McDevitt took second and Ed Ajotian nabbed fourth to give the Crimson total control of the event. Dave Kinney and Mike Stewart teamed up for one-two in the javelin, Kinney winning with a 211-ft., 3-in. toss; and Joe Pelligrini tossed the discuss 47.88 meters, good for second-place honors...
...Lenz took the hammer for the Crimson with a toss of 191 ft., followed by teammates Ed Ajootian and Tom McDevitt. Chris Queen took first in the shot with a throw of 52-ft., 10 1/4-in., and Geoff Stiles went 14-ft., 6-in. to take the pole vault in the absence of Yale competition...
Harvard wasted no time racking up points in the first couple of field events, consistently their strongest areas. Tom Lenz and Ed Adjootian took first and second place for Harvard and scored personal highs by hurling the hammer more than 190 feet...
...Lenz (57.92 meters), Ed Ajootian, and Tom McDevitt started off on the right track, sweeping the hammer throw; and Hasan Kayali (47 ft. 9 in.), Sola Mahoney and Bruce Brooks added a second Crimson-only finish in the triple jump. But the field-event dominance died fast with a pair of upsets...