Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...January invited him to its convention-luncheon (and noted last week that "the demand for tickets was the greatest since General MacArthur returned from the Far East"). In 15-minute answers, Castro criticized the U.S. sugar-quota policy, defended the execution of "war criminals." (Firing squads in Cuba shot 28 more last week, raising the total to 521.) He evaded questions about his stand for neutrality in the cold...
...Delivery. The son of a Phoenix College math and sociology teacher, Long began putting the shot in grammar school, started to show real promise at North Phoenix High School under Track Coach Vernon Wolfe, onetime University of Southern California pole vaulter. Wolfe put him to work lifting weights, had him study movies of O'Brien ("You might say he was a sort of hero of mine then." says Dallas). Slowly he mastered O'Brien's 180° body-spin delivery. Despite the fact that he was picked as an all-state tackle, Long gave up football...
...hulking teen-ager stood by the shotput ring in his track suit, the muscles in his 17½-in. neck bulging, his 50-in. chest heaving in easy rhythm. Dallas Crutcher Long III spoke almost casually of distances never before achieved with the 16-lb. shot. "I should hit at least 66 feet by the end of the year." he said...
...right. At 18, Dallas Long already stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 255 Ibs. Fortnight ago in Tempe, Ariz., he flung the shot an astounding 64 ft. 6 in., a full 16 in. farther than the world record held by Parry O'Brien. For good measure, he topped O'Brien's old mark of 63 ft. 2 in. on three other tosses. But the throws were made in an exhibition, and they cannot be approved for an official record...
U.S.C. Coach Jess Mortensen is still polishing Long's form. "We're hoping to get him a little lower over his right leg so he can be pushing on the shot a longer period of time. He also has a tendency to let the shot drop a little too low just before the throw." But he speaks of Long's ultimate capabilities with awe: "If I say 70 feet, people will think I'm crazy. But if I don't say it, this boy will probably...