Word: ryun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ryun, age 20, sets the world record of 3:51.1 in the mile...
...black trackman in the history of Texas A. & M., Mills whipped the Olympics' top two quarter-milers -Lee Evans and Larry James. Villanova's Marty Liquori, who finished dead last in the 1,500-meter finals in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, defeated World Record Holder Jim Ryun after nine tries in the mile...
Married. Jim Ryun, 21, world's fastest miler (record: 3 min. 51.1 sec.), now winding up his college career at the University of Kansas; and Anne Snider, 21, Kansas State cheerleader whose introduction to Jim came when he refused her autograph request after setting a mile world record in 1966; in Bay Village, Ohio...
Reminiscent in style of the good old Warner Bros, crime films of the '40s, Bullitt is given a distinct touch of Now by Director Peter Yates. The movie is full of gritty city details and has a streaking pace that would leave Jim Ryun winded. As the beleaguered cop, McQueen is surprisingly subtle, mixing his customary hip swagger with an urban high-strung sensibility; like Oscar in The Odd Couple, he is so tense he has clenched hair...
...others tied. Curiously, the stiffest competition came not from the Russians, who proved unaccountably weak, but from three African nations-Kenya, Ethiopia and Tunisia-which among them won every running event from the 1,500 meters to the traditional 26-mile 385-yd. Greek marathon. Kansas' Jim Ryun, the 1,500-meter world record holder, could only moan, "My God, how it hurts," after losing to Kipchoge Keino, who ran it in 3 min. 34.9 sec.-second fastest time ever recorded for the metric mile. The thin air may have been a boon to Oregon's Dick Fosbury...