Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder, can a people be taught to respect law when their teachers continue to use law cynically, prosecuting not when the weight of evidence demands prosecution, but only when the whims and passions of local citizens seem to make conviction probable? The Federal government should start teaching by example, should start standing up to prejudice in the courts and stop fencing with prejudice in the city halls and back rooms...
Before the Philadelphia case, those who advocated fencing had a fairly cogent argument. They claimed that prosecution, rather than sobering local citizens, often rallied them behind the defendants, who became town martyrs. This reasoning no longer holds weight. True, an angry mob of rednecks gathered to hiss the FBI agents upon the arrest of Sheriff Rainey. But that mob did not speak for the town. Rainey was no martyr to the ten Neshoba County clergymen, all of whom signed this statement: "There is an element of shame to all that there would be among us those accused of such...
...last event was the obstacle relay. The first swimmer, Suzie Burchell, was asked to dive in, swim, and do a handstand: Carol Glaser did the corkscrew (turning over between strokes), and picked up a weight; Alex Murray side-stroked carrying the weight; and Jane Mansfield swam, sat on the bottom of the pool, and then walked to the edge...
...events, notably the high jump, the hurdles, and the 35-pound weight, the team looked excellent...
Captain Art Croasdale took the weight with a 56 ft. 8 in. throw, and John Bakkensen, who just took up the event this year, was right behind him at 55 ft. 5 in. It was the first time Bakkensen had cracked the 55-foot mark, and it left coach Bill McCurdy pretty certain that he has the East's best one-two punch in the event. Croasdale also took the shotput...