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This may be the best dual-meet team in the East: the only weaknesses are the pole vault, where Ken Winters' 13.ft., 5 in, jump is the team's best, and the javelin, which will be left to sophomore Bob Welch, a 192 ft., 8 in. performer last year...
...shoulder injury prevented Mills from playing football at Harvard, but he threw the javelin and discus for the freshman track team last spring...
...sprinting across the finish line in the 5,000-meter run, the first American ever to win the race, soaked with rain, plastered with mud, a look of utter rapture on his upturned face. Of Russia's Elvira Ozolina, crushed by her defeat in the women's javelin, rushing wildly into a hairdresser's to have her head shaved in shame. Of South Korea's defiant Dong Kih Choh, disqualified in his flyweight boxing preliminary, sitting angrily in his corner for 50 minutes while officials pleaded with him to leave the ring. And of the Hungarian...
Mills' medal was the only one for the U.S. in track today. Finland's Paul Nevala won the javelin with a throw of 271 feet, 21/4 inches. Gergley Kulcsar of Hungary was second and Jan Lusis of the USSR third...
...JAVELIN THROW...