Wearied by its travels, crippled by illness and injury and cumbered by European cooking, the U.S. track and field team nonetheless managed to perform handsomely as it toured across Europe last week. After a 124-111 victory over the Soviet Union in Moscow, the strong men's team moved on to face West Germany's best at Stuttgart, brought off a 120-91 win. Only the ladies—and not all of them—seemed to be having trouble; they lost to the Russians 39-68, to the Germans 38-66.
For the Soviet meet, the U.S. team was in high key, and the two-day competition produced performances of a caliber rarely...
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