Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Sam Butler might well rank as the single most outstanding participant in the meet. Butler won the 440 low and 120 intermediate hurdles, and then anchored the winning Crimson mile relay, holding off B.C.'s class runner Keith Francis on the final leg...
...Cynthia Phipps's Singh could have beaten them all. Singh was far and away the best in the New York circuit, but a pulled ligament put him out of action for the Wood and the Derby. As it stands, Singh could well be a dramatic spoiler in the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes. It all depends on how he comes back from the dangerous injury...
Joyce Decius led the fireworks for the Crimson squad in the field events, winning the discus (94 ft, 6in.), the shot (34 ft, 4in.), and placing second in the javelin (56 ft. 4 in.), In addition, she ran the first leg of the 4 x 110 relay, which beat Brown with a time of 61.0 seconds...
...this, friends and aides are convinced that Kennedy does not want the nomination, at least not next year. Wife Joan, 38, continues to suffer from emotional problems. Teddy Jr., 13, has adjusted manfully to the amputation of his lower right leg in 1973 to arrest bone cancer; he continues to undergo treatment. Kennedy also must go on serving as surrogate father to Ethel Kennedy's eleven children. Above all, if Teddy were a candidate, the many unanswered questions about Chappaquiddick would be reopened. But if he were nominated at the last minute, there would be much less time...
...convalesced at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from the stroke he suffered last New Year's Eve, iron-willed and gallant Justice William O. Douglas, 76, was frequently more optimistic about his progress than his doctors. Medical experts questioned whether he would regain use of his left leg and arm, paralyzed by the stroke (TIME, Feb. 17). Doctors were also reportedly disturbed by his mental as well as physical state. Douglas objected to a psychoneurological examination and complained about plots to kill him or remove him from the bench. Last week, six days after his return to the court...