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...China's Yang Yun-yu returned the ball to the Soviets by lashing the U.S. for using nuclear blackmail "to enslave the world," attacking John Kennedy for his cunning "strategy" to divide China and the Soviet Union, and insisting that the foremost problem was not peaceful coexistence but maintaining the active struggle against imperialism. "How," she demanded, "can the oppressed coexist with their oppressors?" Lotte Ulbricht replied that Madame Yang was way off base. No one was demanding that oppressed nations live happily with their oppressors, she said, and added that Russia was, as always, "wholeheartedly behind the revolutionary...
...against the arms race, but failed to denounce the U.S. or NATO, the Chinese delegates and their Albanian allies voted against, and remained stubbornly seated while the crowd of 5,000 jumped to their feet, waved handkerchiefs and clapped rhythmically in a 50-minute demonstration. China's Madame Yang then mounted the podium to explain her vote, but was drowned out by angry shouts and finally ruled out of order...
...DECATHLON. Ducky Drake, his track coach at the University of California at Los Angeles, calls him "the finest athlete in the world." Nationalist China's wiry Yang Chuan-kwang, 29, may be just that. For a few days last January C. K. Yang held the world indoor pole-vault record: 16 ft. 3¼ in. Last week at Walnut, his legs were racked with cramps, and Coach Drake had to massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed...
...goalies. Ormond Hammond played the first half, making three saves and allowing all four Tufts goals. Jim Weir played the third quarter and made three saves. For the first ten minutes of the fourth quarter, Jim Leaf tended the nets, turning aside seven Jumbo shots, and Bunli Yang finished the game with three saves...
...Yang expected his record to be broken quickly. And so it was. Before the week was out, Finland's Pentti Nikula. 23, tuning up for a U.S. trip at a small indoor meet at home, vaulted an incredible 16 ft. 8¾ in., thus raising the mark by 5½ in. in one prodigious jump. "It came as no surprise to me," said the wiry Finn, who last June set the outdoor record of 16 ft. 2½ in.: "I am in top shape, and I'll shoot for 17 ft. next time...