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...American shot-putter Dick Benka shattered his own University record by nearly three feet last night to lead the Harvard track team to a 76-33 victory over Northeastern. The Crimson thin-clads swept the first two places in seven of the eleven individual events, holding the Huskies to two victories before splitting the two relays...
Junior Dick Benka won first place in the shot put on a 58' 10 1/2" toss at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia Saturday and banished any lingering doubts that he is the East's finest shot putter...
Harvard filled the air with record throws. In the javelin sophomore Frank Champi set a new university record with a toss of 224'1", thirteen feet beyond his previous best. Shot-putter Dick Benka set a meet record with a toss of 56 feet and Ron Wilson broke the stadium record with a 167 foot discus throw. Charley Ajootian set a personal record with a 187 foot hammer toss...
...same whitewashed brick house he occupied during a 1947-49 stint as a financial counselor to the French embassy. (It just happened to be for sale again when he returned.) Their son Louis, 25, is a student in Paris. Schweitzer finds Washington social life a bore, likes to putter in his garden, walk with his family in his spare time. He has become a fan of hamburgers, motels and dry martinis. At home, he drinks California wine ("to help with your balance of payments"); at IMF's 13-story office compound two blocks from the White House, he imbibes...
Dick Benka became Harvard's first shot-putter ever to place in the nationals as he unleashed a 57' 10" effort to finish third. Washington State's John Van Reeman won the event with a 62' 1" toss...