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...Needled by Communist bigwigs, Russian track and field stars turned on the heat in the last few days of Moscow's Spartakiada sports festival. A runner virtually unknown in the West, Semyon Rzhishchin, lowered the world 3,000-meter steeplechase record to 8:39.8. Soviet swimmers dropped the 4OO-meter medley relay mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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