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by Cordner Nelson $5.75 Bert Nelson Editor and Publisher us Cordner Nelson Founding Editor June Dick Drake Managing Editor 35 NAIA Ch, Billings, Mont Cordner Nelson's best seller Jon Hendershott Staff Writer 4-5 Calif State HS, Westwood, Calif provides great reading—and srack and Field Garry Hill Statistician 4-5 Central Collegiates, Bowling Green great reference value—for "HFGRE.ATONES Ed Fox Business Manager 4-5 Klein Southwest Fest, Houston every track fan. Thirteen CordnerNelson Jim Renshaw Office Manager 5 Kennedy Cms, Berkeley, Calif 6 AAU Marathon Ch, Eugene, Ore chapters give career high D.H. Potts, Associate Editor Emeritus; 6 Twilight, Eugene, Ore points of 13 of history's great R.L. Quercetani, European Editor; Fran 11-12 AAU Dec Ch, Portervllle, Calif est track and field athletes. Errota, High School Feature Editor; Jack 11-12 NCAA/CD, Sacramento, Calif Shepard, High School Statistical Editor; And a 56-page supplement 11-12 USTFF Ch, Wichita, Kans Jim Dunaway, Eastern Editor; Cindy offers profiles of 180 major 12 Aii-American HS Ch, Lombard, III Drown, Editorial Assistant; Chris Young, 12 AAU 50-iciio Walk Ch, Nutley. NJ track and field figures past and Production Assistant. 12 Rose Fest, Portland, Ore present. 14 photographs. 216 Bob Bowman, Walking Editor; Casey Ide, 13 Midwest Masters Ch, Sterling, III pages. Hard cover. "Of ail the Women's Editor; Alphonse Julliand, Sen 16-17 Armed Services Ch, Irvine, Calif books on the market concern ior's Editor; Don Steffens, Postal Editor. 17-19 NCAA Ch, Seattle, Wash us Len(liiHarrison Dillard cond-class postage paid at Los Altos, Calif,, and addition July al mailingoffices. Vol. 24. No. 9, mailed June 4. 1971. 6-7 Stockholm Gms, Stockholm, Swe COPY. PHOTOGRAPHS: All news, features, and adver August Valeriy Brume! tising copy and pictures should be received by T&FN at least nine days before mailing dates, except summaries 10-15 European Ch, Helsinki, Finland and oction photos of imporiani competitions occuring the weekend before publication date, which may be re 17 Malmo Gms, Malmo, Sweden Rafer Johnson ceived no later than Monday noon, Prospective volun 19-21 CISM, Turku, Finland teer correspondents and photographers are invited to re quest details; everyone is encouraged to submit results. September Unsolicited material becomes the property of T&FN. 4 Coca Cola Meeting, London, Eng Parry O'Brien MAILING SCHEDULE: T&FN is mailed on Fridays: I June-June 4; II June-June 18; 1 July-July 9; 4-5 Pre-Olympic, Munich, WG I! July-August6. No issue shouldrequire longer than two weeks delivery in the US. proportionately less in Emil Zatopek areas closer to printing and mailingsite of Omaha, Nebr." Up Front SUBSCRIPTIONS: 16 issuesperyear, including statisti calannual edition. United Statesonly-SB.OO peryear, S11.00 twoyears, SI6.00three years; 325.00five years. Paavo Nurmi Add54.00 per year for first-class mail, S6.50per year Typical of the speed which turned on late for air-mail. All othercountries-add Sl.OO peryear to USrates.Forei^ air-mail rateson request; no first-class May was the 100 final at the Big 8 cham available. Change of address-include old add new ad pionships. Colorado's Ghanian freshman Bob Mathias dress with zip codes: allow three weeks. (Recant stan- ^rd singleissues of T&FN available for S.50; ^ricelist George Daniels (r) zipped a windy 9.2 to for past issues on request.) top teammate Cliff Branch (c) and Kansas ADDRESS: Direct all editorial material, advertising State's Dean Williams. Oh yes, you're not Herb Elliott merchandise ordersand inquiries to Track&FieldNews, P.O. Box 296, Los Altos, Calif. 94022, U.S.A. Tele seeing backwards; the race was run up the phone: 415/948-8188. Offices located at 401 First St homestretch. /Jeff Jacobsen, Topeka Ca Jesse Owens Los Altos, Calif. pital-JournalI For the Record Glenn Davis The following record alterations have been reported since the II May issue: E=European; Peter Snell 100m 10.0 =E Manfred Kokot (EG) Erfurt, EG May 15 DT 224'r/2" E Ricky Bruch/Swej Malmo, Sweden May 15 SP 62'1" JC Spike Walker (Spok Falls CC) Spokane, Wash May 15 220y Al Oerter 20.6 =HS Marshall Dill (Mich HS) E Lansing, Mich May 22 PV 17'0" BC Bruce Simpson (Can) El Paso, Tex May 22 120HH 13.5 JC Charles Rich (Southwest JC) San Diego, Calif May 22 PV 17'0" =BC Kirk Bryde (Can/Wash) Seattle, Wash May 22 PV 17'4" BC Kirk Bryde (Can/Wash) Seattle, Wash May 22 and 180 Dec 7639 BC Peter Gabbett (GB) Leicester, Eng May 22-23 JT other 254'11" HS Russ Francis (Ore HS) Pleasant Hill, Ore May 27 major From the Athletes Marathoner Amby Burfoot, on his goals: "My goals as a runner are not time or stars championship oriented. I would like to continue improving inthefuture. Ihope tocon tinue running for many years forthesheer exhilaration, friendships andgood health." Herb Elliott, one of "The Great Ones," wins at Rome. !Junel971 track &FIELD NEWS * Box296 * LosAltos, Ca. 94022 Vol. 24, No. 9 Bible of the Sport Worldwide Coverage

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