Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lend flesh, bone, and color as the press blurb promises; it also jumbles events into a sequence as confusing as living it the first time through. The fine-honed skeleton of the Cox Report may stiffen in its structured divisions and categories, creak in its outline, but it does throw critical events into prominence and leave others in the gloom where they belong...
...Winning Throw...
Unleashing his best throw ever, big Charlie Ajootian picked up Harvard's only victory in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend at Detroit's Cobo Arena. His first-place throw accounted for five of the Crimson's eight points in the meet...
Although Ajootian has been mentioned as a possible winner before the meet, most best were riding on sophomore Ed Nosal. whose 62'2" heave earlier this season established a Harvard record. But Nosal was unable to find the distance Friday, and had to settle for twelfth place, his best throw being more than ten feet shy of his record-breaker...
...different story for Ajootian, however, as he hurled consistently long tosses of 59'6', 61'8 1/2", 59'9 1/4", 56' 8 1/2", and 61' 6 1/2" while fouling only once. His winning throw was eight inches, farther than his throws in any previous meet. The senior's closest challenger was old rival Ed Potts of Navy, who threw the weight...