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...smashed the world indoor record with a put of 66 ft. 2¼ in.; earlier this month in Austin he warmed up for his outdoor record-smasher with a toss of 67 ft. 9 in. "I've never seen anything like it," exclaimed Stanford's venerable Coach Payton Jordan, who worked with Randy at the Olympics. "His foot explodes, his calf explodes, his thigh explodes, his hip, his back, his shoulder, his triceps, and right out to the very tips of his fingers. It's like a whole string of firecrackers going...
Died. Gail Neal, 29, California tennis-club attendant; of a .45-cal. bullet wound in the head, shortly after which her estranged husband, Actor Tom Neal, 51, the man who hospitalized Franchot Tone ("I was on him like a cat") in their 1951 brawl over Actress Barbara Payton, was booked on suspicion of murder; in Palm Springs...
...This team is so strong it kind of frightens me," said Coach Payton Jordan. Indeed, to hear them chatter, the U.S. team that took on Russia last week was the hottest thing since sweat suits. "Each of us is the best in our field," boasted Hurdler Rex Cawley before the meet. "The Russians have two chances -slim and none," chortled High Jumper Gene Johnson. Munch, Munch. The words must have tasted bitter. After two disastrous days in Moscow, the men's team barely edged the Russians, 119-114, and the women's team lost by an embarrassing...
...DEELDA PAYTON...
...former Denver businessmen, Glenn I. Payton and David O'Keefe, bought 12,000 acres of ranch land on the big, outlying Island of Hawaii for $55,000 cash and a $200,000 mortgage. After putting in $270,000 worth of roads, they subdivided the land into 4,000 "Tropic Estates," sold them...