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...With only one jumper still left on the hill, Norway's Toralf Engan seemed to have the 70-meter ski jump all sewed up. But the last jumper had other ideas: arms pressed tight along his sides, nose almost touching the tips of his skis, Finland's VEIKKO KANKKONEN soared 259 ft. 2 in., landed soft as a feather to score 229.9 points and edge Engan by 3.6 points...
...comeback after his two one-round disasters against Sonny Liston, ex-Champion Patterson floored Amonti three times before the Italian gave up the fight. > Mickey Wright, 28: election to the Ladies Golf Hall of Fame, after winning a record 13 tournaments and $31,269 on the 1963 pro tour. > Veikko Kankkonen: the international Four Hills ski-jumping tournament, a grueling nine-day test over four separate hills in West Germany and Austria, beating Austria's Baldur Preiml for the title with a leap of 320 ft. at Bischofshofen, Austria...
...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...
...band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to Finland's Veikko Karvonen, who had no qualms about right-hand turns. In what may be his last appearance on the track, Britain's Roger Bannister loafed to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter run. His time...
...Boston, Finland's Veikko Karvonen, runner-up a year ago, won the annual (since 1897) Boston Marathon. Time: 2:20:39, one minute and 48 seconds off the record...