Word: livio
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...Rome: Connolly's losing throw was still a foot better than the Olympic record he set in 1956. Winner of the event was Russia's Vasily Rudenkov at 220 ft. 1% in. ¶In the men's 200 meters, a lanky Italian chemistry student named Livio Berut-ti, 21, rocked U.S. prestige by tying the world record of 20.5 sec. and finishing a stride in front of Ohio's Les Carney, whose time of 20.6 tied the 1956 Olympic record. The U.S. had not lost the event since 1928. After plodding home dead-last in sixth...
...shower. The report started like many others, but toward the end the computer wrote in effect: "I give up." Linsley said to his wife, "I see something crazy," and went to work with his slide rule. Half an hour later he telephoned his colleague, Dr. Livio Scarsi: "I think we may have something...