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...team is that Americans may well win all three. New York's Tom Farrell and Oregon's Wade Bell are top contenders for the 800 meters. They ran one-two at last month's Olympic trials, and Farrell's time of 1 min. 46.5 sec. should be enough to win if he can match it at Mexico City. George Young, a skinny, crew-cut schoolteacher from Arizona, is a solid threat to become the U.S.'s first gold-medal winner in the steeplechase since 1952. Bill Toomey, a 195-lb. muscleman from Santa Barbara, Calif...
Americans traditionally are strong in the dashes. This year California's Jim Hines and Washington's Charlie Greene are co-holders of the world record (9.9 sec.) for 100 meters, and New York's John Carlos tuned up for the Olympic 200 meters last month by clipping .3 sec. off the old world mark of 20 sec...
Call for Brink's. The U.S. track team has no fewer than ten world record holders, most of whom are naturally favored to capture first place in their specialties. Lee Evans, a whippet-like San Jose State College senior, owns the 400-meter record of 44 sec., and is expected to both win that event and lead a victorious U.S. 1,600-meter relay team. After failing to qualify for the U.S. Olympic squad in the 800-meter run, Kansas' Jim Ryun finally made it in the 1,500 meters, for which he holds the record. Concentrating...
Real liberals of the McCarthy stripe are few and far between in this poverty-stricken state, but the moderate reformers like Sec. of State party nominee John D. Rockefeller IV are relatively liberal. James Sprouce, a reformer won the party nomination after a long fight against one of the state's many close to corrupt party officials. If he wins, the reformers will have control of the all important patronage to build themselves up for 1970. A possible challenge for progressives in '70 is conservative Sen. Byrd. Men to watch are Sprouce and Rockefeller...
...meter dash was the real sizzler. The third-place finisher, Stanford Graduate Larry Questad, tied Tommie Smith's world mark of 20 sec. flat. Smith himself, who finished second, was clocked in 19.9 sec. The winner: New York's John Carlos, who turns on for races by listening to soul music. He broke the tape in 19.7 sec.-a full .3 sec. off Smith's old record...