Word: snell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ryun loafed through his specialty in 4 min. 2.8 sec.-just fast enough to leave his nearest competitor 15 yds. behind. But he also competed in the half mile, an event he has entered "only five times before," ran the 880 yds. in 1 min. 44.9 sec.-beating Peter Snell's four-year-old world mark by .2 sec. Shrugged Ryun: "I had to do something to break the monotony...
...teen-ager who goes to church twice on Sundays, doesn't smoke, drink or dance, addresses his elders as "sir" and "ma'am," and never even says "shucks" in the presence of ladies, Jim Ryun inspires an awful lot of antagonism. New Zealand's Peter Snell, who was then the world record holder for the mile, explained why on the eve of last summer's A.A.U. championships. Snarled Snell: "I resent having anybody that young in my kind of race." He resented it a good deal more next day, when Ryun won the A.A.U. mile, beating...
Nobody got all the answers to last Thursday's rock and roll quiz, but three entrants did hit 39 of the 40 questions correctly. They were John Leshy '66 of Kirkland House; Jim Sersich '68 of Lowell; and Suzanne Snell '66 and Joel DeMott '67 of Eliot Hall. Almost everyone was stumped by question number 32, which asked for the source of the lines, "Like a summer rose needs the sun and rain, I need your sweet love to heal the pain." This lovely couplet comes from Tommy Hunt's unjustifiably obscure "I Just Don't Know What...
...rematch last week at Auckland: dogging Keino's footsteps for most of the race, he turned it on in the last 20 yds. to win by 3 ft. in 3 min. 54.1 sec.-tying the listed world record held by New Zealand's own Peter Snell. Twice was too much for Keino. "I am going back to Kenya and learn how to sprint the last lap," he said. "Just wait-I am going to get that record." Snell, who was a spectator at the contest, thought otherwise. One day, he predicted, East Germany's May is going...
Whatever the reasons, Snell saw no possibility of regaining his championship form this season. Rather than make it eleven losses, he accepted the bitter truth. Canceling the rest of his tour, he announced that he was quitting racing altogether. "Perhaps this tour added a new dimension," he said in Germany. "At least people know I can take a defeat...