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...influencing their Cokes from brown paper bags. On each table at the Hilton Inn was a construction-paper centerpiece noting the most important events of the past ten years. In 1963, John Kennedy's assassination. In 1965, Debbie Bryant (a Kansan) named Miss America. In 1966, Kansan Jim Ryun runs the fastest mile. Not a word about Viet...
Colburn, the Crimson's 1000-yard standout who decided not to run his specialty, along with unpredictable Shaw, must be considered as threats for top places in the mile run despite the entry of Villanova's Marty Liquori, the only American to beat Jim Ryun in the past four years. Liquori has run the mile in less than 3:57, almost 13 seconds faster than the times turned in this year by either Harvard runner...
...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...