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...team's efforts in the field events were better. Ted Bailey took a first place in the hammer throw with a 191 ft., 6 in. heave, and Rick DeLone won the discus. Broad jumpers Chris Ohiri, Sid Marland, and Marty Beckwith swept that event with Ohiri's 22 ft., 10 1/4 in. leap setting the pace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: West Point Defeats Track Squad; Bailey, DeLone, Ohiri Win Firsts | 4/16/1962 | See Source »

...hammer, Harvard's Ted Balley is the favorite, but the rest of the places are up for grabs. With Art Doten, lost via a broken foot, things might be tough in the 35-pound weight, but Bailey and Larry Clayman are good bets for one-two honors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tracksters Vie With Army; Mullin Seeks Mile Victory | 4/14/1962 | See Source »

Broken Vessels. The worst injuries in boxing occur when a fighter's neck muscles are relaxed, so his head can bounce like a punching bag on a spring. Such was the case with the groggy Paret on the ropes in the twelfth. With a trip-hammer succession of alternating right uppercuts and left hooks, Griffith slammed Paret's head from side to side. Different parts of Paret's brain were hit by the overlying skull with enough force to break blood vessels between the middle (arachnoid) and outermost (dura mater) layers of the brain's covering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Aim is to Maim | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...young pianists can muster the depths of thought and feeling that seem to come to him naturally. His reading of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 last week had an unusual breadth, a feeling of spaciousness, an easy-breathing pulse. It had its purely bravura moments - trip-hammer scales that Barenboim's small, elegant hands looked incapable of - but the overall effect was one of quietly exalted strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Teen-Age Virtuoso | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Cries of, "God, lookat dat big rat!" attracted several minions of the law. A squad car parked further down Holyoke St. Unsuccessful attempts to rub out the rat with hammer and broom drove the Yardling down the street. A howling mob of nearly 50 passers-by followed with shouts of "God, lookat...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: All Yell, 'Lookat Dat'; Eight Cops Kill Rat | 3/28/1962 | See Source »

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