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Ryun has run faster since. Distance runners traditionally do not reach their peak before their mid-20s-Britain's Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4-min. barrier in 1954, and France's Michel Jazy, the current record holder, is 30. Ryun, at the tender age of 19, is already the second-fastest miler in history. In this month's Compton Invitational track meet at Los Angeles, he sped the distance in 3 min. 53.7 sec.-just .1 sec. off Jazy's world record. Afterward, he complained mildly that the official who was supposed...
...began, as all great ventures must, with an idea. Cerebral, bespectacled Polish Emigré Czeslaw Bojarsky found himself in postwar Paris with an architectural engineer's degree, a distinguished war record, a wife and child to support-and a language barrier that barred him from practice. He tried making shoes, inventing an electric razor, singing in a national radio contest. Nothing worked. Then, as he later told the judge, "I suddenly remembered the theory of my professor of political economics at the University of Danzig. He said that a man who lights a cigar with his bank note...
Unexpected Sympathy. Thousands of new Somebodies had to overcome the barrier of illiteracy. Many learned to identify the names of the candidates they favored by staring for hours at crayon-lettered flash cards prepared by civil rights workers. Despite an election regulation that allowed just five minutes in the voting booth, some Negro novices puzzled and pondered over the mysteries of the ballot for as long as half an hour. Encouragingly-if unexpectedly-sympathetic white officials usually gave them all the time they needed, even helped confused illiterates by reading aloud the candidates' names and marking ballots when voters...
...When I was a kid," says Actor Terry Stamp, "I was indoctrinated with the idea of a job that would pay a pension at 55. Now the kids are prepared to spend what they've got. As a working-class boy, there's a real barrier in the mind. It's so strange to be able to do things. There has been a fantastic opening of horizons...
...effect, seminaries are becoming more and more like Catholic colleges, which, in turn, are becoming more and more like secular universities-institutions in which an adherence to church doctrine is no barrier to free intellectual inquiry. Last week this new ideal of the church was summed up by the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, Father General of the Society of Jesus, who spoke at a convocation honoring the 125th anniversary of the Jesuits' Fordham University, during a 17-day visit to the U.S. "The university must be free to analyze not only ungrounded attacks upon the faith, but formulations, defenses...