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StateThe agony of defeat and the exquisite taste of victory—in both personal life and athletics—were graphically relayed to Montana Boys Staters Tuesday by 1964 Olympic gold medalist runner Billy Mills, who stirred the 525 delegates to repeated standing ovations, during the afternoon assembly.Mills, an Ogalalla Sioux Indian from the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota, overcame 1,000—1 odds to win the 10,000 meter run at the ’64 Olympics in Tokyo—the first American ever to accomplish that feat.During his address before the rapt Boys State audience, Mills recounted his childhood poverties and defeats, his struggle to establish a personal philosophy of life, and his eventual victory in both life and sports.■director of the Office of Recreation, Physical Education and Athletics for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, N.M.Mills closed his Tuesday address with an Indian prayer which concluded: “I seek strength not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy—myself.”Wednesday’s Boys State agenda inducted a 1:30 general assemblyfeaturing State Representatives Dorothy Bradley of Bozeman and Henry Cox, Billings and doses with the state primary election.State officers of the 27th annual session will be voted Thursday andsworn in by District Judge W. W. Lessley of Bozeman, during the8:30 assembly.
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Dillon Daily Tribune Examiner
Dillon, Montana, US
Wed, Jun 13, 1973
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