Across the country from Squaw Valley, U.S. track stars put on a dazzling show at the national A.A.U. indoor championships in Manhattan, promising a more impressive showing at the Summer Olympics in Rome. In a single night U.S. athletes shattered three world records.
Most spectacular was Weightman Hal Connolly, 1956 Olympic champion, who last year inexplicably failed to live up to his old form. Last week burly (6 ft., 230 lbs.) Hal Connolly, with one titanic heave, threw the 35-lb. weight 71 ft. 2 in.½breaking the 70-ft. barrier and surpassing the previous record by an impressive 2 ft. 6½ in.
After his victory,...
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