And so will many other performances in a Games that sired 15 world records and added illustrious new names to an Olympic Hall of Fame that includes such legends as Jesse Owens, Emil Zatopek, Abebe Bikila and Sebas-tian Coe.

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At the town hall volunteers gathered names and car registrations to ease the task of marrying-up owners with vehicles in daylight.

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"The Brangwyn Hall is one of Swansea's key cultural assets which has played host to some of the biggest names in the music world over the years, " said Nick Bradley, Swansea council's cabinet member for regeneration.

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Besides Hall of Famers Dennis Eckersley and Rollie Fingers, anomalies such as Jim Konstanty and Willie Hernandez have had their names etched on the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award.

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Speaking to a standing-room-only lecture hall lined with dozens of students and faculty members, he spent the last minutes of his presentation reading off the names of students, post-doctoral fellows, collaborating groups and funding sources from a projected slide that listed even more of them.

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