Word: javelin
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...come a good indoor track team doesn't necessarily perform well outdoors? To begin with, there are six more events (discus, javelin, hammer, triple jump, 440-yard hurdles, and sprint relay) on the outdoor card, and in only one of these does Harvard have blue-chip points...
...Javelin throwers Tony Kilkuskie and Walter Campbell are competent, but their 190-foot throws won't win many meets. Kilkuskie has been throwing exceptionally well this spring...
...they prepare for their Puerto Rico trip coming in a week, the trackmen still have large gaps in their ranks. They need back-up sprinters for Andersen and Lynch, more depth in the javelin, broad jump, and the hop-skin and jump. Their early meets should be easy--they start off on April 16 against Brown--but they face an incredibly fired-up Army in the Outdoor Heps...
...Scandinavians just naturally throw a javelin farther than anybody else. Americans traditionally make the best shotputters, and the high jump has been a Russian specialty ever since Valery Brumel appeared on the scene. Milers come from everywhere. The last four world record holders, in order, have been a Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare...
...miles north of the dam. Kaunda accepted the air protection (Zambia has only ten military aircraft of its own), but rejected the offer of troops unless they were sent directly to the dam. Into the copper-belt center of Ndola at week's end swooped ten British Javelin jet fighters, accompanied by big-bellied Argosy and Beverley transports carrying the squadron's maintenance supplies. A brace of Britannia turboprop transports arrived at Lusaka itself. To the south, Smith was sardonically amused. "It is in our interest to have law and order maintained in Zambia," he deadpanned...