Word: medals
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...short of the world record. Whirling mightily, Boston's Hal Connolly, 28, threw the hammer 224 ft. 4½ in., just 11½ in. short of his world record. Patriarch of the U.S. whales, Shotputter Parry O'Brien, 28, a gold medal winner in both 1952 and 1956, this year had lost time and again. But with the pressure on, O'Brien won with a putt of 62 ft. 6¼ in., 3 ft. ¾ in. off the world record...
Olympic Trials (CBS, 5-7 p.m.). The Rev. Bob Richards, two-time Olympic gold-medal winner, helps report the finals of the 1960 U.S. Olympic track and field trials in Palo Alto, Calif...
Kono virtually guarantees the U.S. a gold medal. Undefeated in world championship competition since 1952, he has broken some 30 world records. Even more unusual, Kono seems able to gain or lose weight at will and still lick the planet. In the Olympics he won the 148-lb. class in 1952, the 181-lb. class in 1956. In non-Olympic competition, he set a world record in the igS-lb. class...
...Pentagon ceremony last week, a tall, grey-haired chemist received one of the U.S.'s highest civilian honors: the Distinguished Civilian Service Award. For Peter King, 49, now associate director of research for materials at the Navy's Washington, D.C. research laboratories, the medal had been a long while in coming: it was granted for a dramatic but generally unknown service performed eleven years...
...Khrushchev went last week, he had a shadow. Whether it was Paris, Berlin or Moscow, there at Nikita's elbow was the hulking, impassive Ukrainian, whose short-cropped grey hair and bulldog face were in dour contrast to his gleaming epaulets and the nine rows of gaily colored medal ribbons that adorned his chest. By no accident, the wrecking of the Paris summit coincided with the West's first close-up look at Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Russia's Minister of Defense...