Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of its record of fine showings in this meet and its experience on the boards. Tom Sullivan, who won the mile last year in 4:11.8, is a defending champion for the Wildcats and is favored to retain his title against a field that includes Georgetown's Joe Lynch and Army's Jim Warner...
...hurdles, and the dash. Larry Livers took a third place is the 60-yard hurdles last year and teammate Ken Coniglio finished sixth in the same event, but the two will be lucky to score three points between them tonight. The field includes Harvard's Aggrey Awori and Tony Lynch, and navy's Courtland Gray...
Awori and Lynch are among the best in the hurdles, though the narrow spacing of the dash finals and hurdles in the evening's schedule makes it likely that Awori cannot be at this best in both. If Lynch can best Courtland Gray, as he did in Ithaca last Saturday, that may well be good enough for the title...
...Lynch parties are no longer frequent, but the murder of Negroes and civil rights workers continues unchecked. Some examples since 1961: Herbert Lee and Louis Allen, both shot to death near Liberty, Mississippi; four girls, killed in the Birmingham church bombing; Johnny Robinson, a 16-year-old shot by police after the Birmingham bombings; William L. Moore, the white postman murdered near Attala, Alabama; Medgar Evers, assassinated in Mississippi; James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, lynched near Philadelphia, Mississippi; Lemuel A. Penn, the educator slain near Athens, Georgia; the Negro burned to death in Louisiana last fall...
...mile-relay team got the same strong sniff of victory. Michael Hauck's speedy third leg put Tony Lynch only a stride behind Cornell's anchorman at the beginning of the last quarter. Lynch was still there at the finish, as the Crimson claimed second place and a large share of the credit for Cornell's meet record clocking...