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Freshman track coach Ed Stowell explains that the first thing Harvard does when it gets a Midwestern shot and discus man is to start him throwing the 35-1b. weight and the hammer--almost exclusively Eastern events...
Whether he knows how or not, next year Nosal is expected to be a top Ivy contender in both the indoor weight and the outdoor hammer along with Charlie Ajootian, who placed fourth in the NCAA's, and Ron Wilson. In addition he will continue to throw the discus, which was his best event in high school, and the shot, where he broke Dick Benka's freshman record with a 51' 10" heave this spring...
Stowell hesitantly admits that after only a year in the event Nosal is "in my estimation the best freshman hammer thrower that we have ever had" and "for only having thrown the weight for a year, probably the best freshman 35-1b. weight thrower ever in this country...
Wilson and Ajootian wil both be contestants in the hammer throw. Wilson--who will be seeded first in the ICA4's this weekend as a result of his season high 193' throw--easily met the NCAA qualifying standard of 172', as did Ajootian's 187' throw...
Hundreds of flags flapped from balconies: black anarchist, red hammer-and-sickle, blue and red Viet Cong, and red, white and blue Cuban. French "Red Guards" strung up posters proclaiming such sentiments as "It's forbidden to forbid" and "Humanity will not be happy until the last capitalist is hanged with the entrails of the last bureaucrat." The stone bust of Auguste Comte, the 19th century French philosopher-reformer who coined the term sociology, was draped with a red bandanna; a red flag adorned the statue of Louis Pasteur. Inside, in jampacked auditoriums, thousands applauded allright debates that ranged...