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record. Record-cracking Olympic trial performances by Los Angeles Housewife Earlene Brown in the discus (176 ft. 10½ in.) and shotput (50 ft. 10¼ in.) and San Diego's Karen Oldham in the javelin (163 ft. 5½ in.) demonstrated fair U.S. strength in the field events. Said Temple: "We've got a chance. We'll have to wait...
Some established stars lost out alto gether. Broad Jumper Gregg Bell, 29, a gold-medal winner in the Melbourne Games of 1956, finished a frustrated fourth. Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski failed to qualify. Toughest of all was the disappointment in the shotput. Army Lieut. Bill Nieder, 26, holds the world record at 65 ft. 7 in. but, hampered by a bad right knee, he reverted to his old line-drive style of toss and managed only a weak 61 ft. 9¾ in. to finish fourth behind Dallas Long (63 ft. 3¾ in.), Parry O'Brien...
...should win the shotput, pole vault, hammer throw, and high jump, seems likely to take the javelin, discus and broad jump. But South Africa's Mai Spence is rated the world's best in the 400 meters by Europe's experts, and Jamaica's George Kerr will be the man to beat in the 800 meters. Jim Beatty in the 5,000 meters and Dyrol Burleson in the 1,500 meters give the U.S. its strongest candidates in years, but both will go to Rome as long shots against European and Russian distance...
...shotput. brawny (6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs.) World Champion Parry O'Brien was trailing Teammate Dave Davis when he flashed across the ring on his fifth try, heaved the 16-lb. sphere 63 ft. 2½ in. to break his own record...
Ladies First. At the end of the first day, U.S. men had won seven of ten first places, including one-two sweeps in the loo-meters, the no-meter high hurdles, the 400-meter dash, and the shotput. The only real upset in the weights was when Hammer Thrower Vasily Rudenkov got off a toss of 219 ft. to upset World Record Holder Hal Connolly...