Word: snell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divided up the costume jewelry. The U.S. did fine in sailing (two silver, three bronze) -but the 15 yachting medals were split eight different ways. Germany's balding Willi Holdorf, the oldest-looking 24-year-old in Tokyo, won the decathlon. New Zealand's incomparable Peter Snell, already the 800-meter champion, scored another awesome victory in the 1,500-meter run for what he termed "a nice double." Australia's Betty Cuthbert, who won three events at Melbourne in 1956, cranked her 26-year-old bones around the 400-meter track in 52 seconds...
...Peter Snell of New Zealand won the Olympic 1500-meter run in 3:38.1 this morning. America's Dyrol Burleson finished far back...
Also on the schedule were the 1500 meters (with America's Dyrol Burleson and New Zealand's Peter Snell the top entrants); the marathon (with Buddy Edelen and 10,000 meter winner Billy Mills entered for the U.S.); and three relay events (with the U.S. favored in all three...
...assembled in the U.S. A frail (120 Ibs.), squeaky-voiced high school graduate who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a biologist or a politician, Lindgren runs at least 200 miles a week-"in the sand like Herb Elliott, up hills like Peter Snell." But until last June, Lindgren had never run a 10,000-meter race in his life. By last week he had run a grand total of three-and won them...
...their research, Drs. John E. Snell, Richard J. Rosenwald and Ames Robey dealt with 37 cases referred to them by Massachusetts courts. Most of the husbands, the doctors discovered, fell into a definite pattern. Though reasonably hard-working and outwardly respectable, they were in reality "shy, sexually ineffectual mother's boys." The wives also fitted a pattern-"aggressive, efficient, masculine and sexually frigid...