Marine Lieut. Billy Mills, 27: the six-mile run in 27 min. 11.6 sec., clipping 6.2 sec. from the record set in 1963 by Australia's Ron Clarke; at the national A.A.U. track and field championships in San Diego, where the team to meet the U.S.S.R. at Kiev this month was chosen. Proving that his astonishing 10,000-meter victory in the Olympics was no fluke, Mills held off a strong challenge from Washington State's Gerry Lindgren, 19, who matched him stride for stride through a bristling 58 sec. final quarter-mile before Mills breasted the...
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