Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arnie Sowell, winner of the 880-yd. run in 1 min. 47.6 sec., a full second under Mai Whitfield's listed world record. The atmosphere was not so kind to the milers: the U.S. Marines' Wes Santee, top U.S. hope for cracking the 4-minute-mile barrier, beat out his old rival, the Army's Fred Dwyer, by 25 yards, but Winner Santee's time was a lackadaisical...
...Hanlon, hurdling the $8,000 barrier (he named the first five of the seven ages of man from Jaques' speech in As You Like it†), went home to decide whether he will try this week...
After years of closure, the wooden barrier at the Iranian-Russian border was lifted last week, and a Russian train rolled across. A Russian bank official stepped out onto Iranian soil, greeted Iranian officials in Russian and presented his credentials...
...Anti-Communism "after all is only a new aspect of resistance to foreign ferments which might threaten national unity. It is not so much a political barrier against Russian supremacy as rivalry between two economic systems, both of which have been built up on semi-religious convictions...
...machines were no more fantastic than the men who uneasily controlled them. The Air Force's "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), first man to hurtle through the sound barrier (in Bell's X-I), makes an entrance in Bridgeman's book that is worthy of jet-age grand opera-and typical of Yeager. As Bridgeman started his first rocket flight in the Skyrocket, bright sunlight made it difficult to read the dials in the cockpit. Suddenly a shadow hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying...