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...there is any measure of public suspicion of Brooke, it is certainly not obvious when he campaigns. As perhaps the most prominent Negro state office holder in the nation, he employs a campaign technique that bears strong resemblance to the Kennedy style of politicking. He moves about with incredible speed, always shaking hands, always smiling broadly, and never showing the irritation that most campaigners feel and many display. As he rides along in his car, he invariably stops at street corners for brief hand-shaking sessions, and he shouts greetings from his car window to cab drivers and motorcyclists...
...years. "The greatest sensation in swimming," he says, "is the pain you have to swim through. But the real thrill is winning-and winning big." Last week Don was looking for all the thrills he could find. In the 100-meter freestyle he left France's World Record Holder Alain Gottvallès far behind to set a 53.4-sec. Olympic record. "I had nothing left at the finish," he confided afterward. "Not a drop, not a single breath...
Track and field competition closes today, with Americans entered in all six finals. John Thomas led three Americans over the qualifying height of 6 ft., 9 in. in the high jump. Russia's world-record holder Valery Brumel almost failed to qualify. Brumel didn't clear 6 ft., 8 in. until his third and last...
Harold Connoly, world record holder in the hammer throw, finished sixth at 218 ft., 8 in. behind the USSR's Rowald Klim, who won with a throw...
...last year, Cornell's offense packed up and went away, or so the story goes. Quarterback Gary Wood, holder of five Ivy League records, went off to join the New York Giants Placekicker Pete Gogolak, who set a national collegiate record with 44 straight extra points, was shipped to the Buffalo Bills of the American Football League...