Word: legging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Navy's Tom Palkie won the 100, 220, and the broad jump. Andersen, running with a bad leg, was second in the 100 in a photo finish and Sam Robinson finished fifth...
...team (Bobby Lee, Joe Smith Andy Cahners and Wayse Andersen) finished third to Navy and Army in 47.3 seconds. The mile relay team (Dave McKelvey Trey Burns Jeff Hevelle and Sam Robinson) was nipped at the time by Navy but managed a fine 141 time Robinson ran the anchor leg in a sparkling 47.3 seconds...
Captain Tony Lynch slowed his pace in the 440 yard intermediate hurdles to aid teammate Frank Haggerty and the strategy payed off. Lynch won easily in 535 seconds, while Haggerty took an unexpected second. In the 120-yard high hurdles though. Lynch pulled a leg muscle after the third hurdle as he started to move ahead but managed to finish third, getting three valuable but painful points...
...steadily an inch at a time from 6-4 in the high jump, Pardee cleared 6-9 on his first try to break Kim Hill's old meet record of 6-81/2. He failed in three attempts at 6-10, however, clipping the bar twice with his trailing leg...
...Naval Hospital in Oakland, Dr. Frank L. Golbranson has already used instant prostheses to send some Viet Nam battle victims back to active, though limited, duty. Such progress is sure to bring long overdue improvement in treating most of the nation's estimated 30,000 leg amputations a year. With strong Government backing, the new technique probably can be perfected, and enough specialists trained in its use, to make it widely available in less than two years...