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Dash of Strength. Most other experts agree that U.S. trackmen will do even better in Mexico City than they did at Tokyo in 1964, when they won twelve out of 24 gold medals and broke two world records. Impressive as that 1964 showing was, the U.S. won no medals at all in three track events: the 800-meter run, the steeplechase and the decathlon. One indication of the superiority of this year's team is that Americans may well win all three. New York's Tom Farrell and Oregon's Wade Bell are top contenders...
...teamed up in both the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. In the 1960 games the American team swept past the powerful Canadian and Russian teams to face Czechoslovakia in the finals. Trailing 4-3 going into the final period, the Americans exploded for six goals to win the gold medal, 9-4. The Clearys ended their competitive careers in style, accounting for three goals and five assists in that final game...
...counteroffensive in France at the time of the Battle of the Bulge, Ware, then a lieutenant colonel, assembled a small squad of men and personally led the attack on a German fortification that had held up his battalion's advance. For that act he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for gallantry...
...U.S.C.'s Earl McCullouch, who gave up a chance at an Olympic gold medal (he is the world co-recordholder in the 110-meter high hurdles) to play pro football, the game was especially rewarding. McCullouch caught two TD passes. For Larry Csonka, Syracuse's 236-lb. fullback, playing against the Packers was "like being in a dream." To Green Bay he was strictly a nightmare. Trampling out 95 yds. on 18 carries, Csonka was the key man in an astonishingly successful All-Star ground attack that gained a total of 206 yds. against the toughest defensive line...
...chaplain. Besides ministering to the wounded, O'Callahan manned a fire hose, going into an oven-hot turret to cool off the ammo to throw it overboard. For this Father O'Callahan, who died in 1964, became the only chaplain in World War II to receive the Medal of Honor. Last week, another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S. O'Callahan was commissioned at Boston Navy Yard. Donning a sailor's white hat, Richard Cardinal Cushing presided, observing that war "can make men into brutes. But out of it can also come achievements that...