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After nearly two years in reverse, American Motors Corp. last week made a move to get into high gear. Off the company's production lines in Kenosha, Wis., rolled the first Javelin specialty car, a handsome 1968-model entry that will put A.M.C. into the bustling youth market with such fast company as Ford's Mustang, Chevrolet's Camaro, Plymouth's Barracuda, Lincoln Mercury's Cougar and Pontiac's Firebird...
...door hardtop with swept-back body, the Javelin boasts the kind of features that the sports-minded car buyer seems to prefer-streamlined hood, bucket seats, split grille and sunken door handles. Also available are such options as a zippy 280-h.p. engine and racing stripes. Roomier than the Mustang, but with a price in the same range (about $2,500), the car itself not only stands to catch on, but, says Company President William Luneburg, its sporty look should also "give the showrooms a traffic boost" for other lines...
...Javelin -- Bernson (H) 211-11, Champi (H) 209-9, Heath...
Other Harvard winners were Keith Colburn, who captured the 880-yard run in 1:51.6; Frank Haggerty, victor in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles in 53.0; Henry Bernson, who heaved the javelin 211.11; and Steve Schoonover, whose disappointing 14 ft. win in the pole vault was reminiscent of the good old days of Harvard pole-vaulting before he arrived...
...Young (Y), Jewett (H) 440: Young (Y), Hobbs (Y) 880: Colburn (H), Burns (H) Mile: Shaw (H), Bittner (Y) 2-Mile: Baker (H), Mardin (H) 120 Hurdles: Moore (Y), Evans (Y) 440 Hurdles: Haggerty (H), Rony (Y) Shot Put: Greenlee (Y), Benka (H) Discus: Redendal (H), Wilson (H) Javelin: Berson (H), Champi (H) Hammer: Wilson (H), Ajootian (H) Pole Vault: Schoonover (H), Brady (Y) High Jump: Evans (Y), Rall (Y) Broad Jump: Hill, (Y), Galliers (H) Triple Jump: Hill, (Y), Opheme-Poeng (Y) 440 Relay: Robinson (Y), Jewett (H) Jones (Y), Andersen (H) Mile Relay: undecided