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...four-minute mile (TIME, May 17), Distance Runner Chris Chataway has been a British favorite. Even though he won the three-mile race at the Empire Games in August, most of his fans remember him as the man who always finishes second. Last summer, at the European championships in Bern, Chris managed to nose out the great Czech runner, Emil Zatopek, in the 5,000- meter run-and still he finished second, behind Russia's Vladimir Kuc (rhymes with coots...
...Bern, Switzerland, a band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to Finland's Veikko Karvonen, who had no qualms about right-hand turns. In what may be his last appearance on the track, Britain's Roger Bannister loafed to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter run. His time...
...rest of the Swiss food industry rose up in arms, Price-Cutter Duttweiler matched them blow for blow. When his business branched out to Basel, the trucks were seized and drivers arrested. Dutti fought back in the courts and won. When, a year later, more trucks were seized in Bern, he showered the city with leaflets from an airplane, got the housewives to back him. As he fought a virtual street-by-street battle into other Swiss cities and villages, competitors set up a national boycott. Manufacturers who sold to him lost other customers, shoppers who traded at Migros trucks...
Recently Chato won Old World recognition of his taste and good works with a showing of part of his collection in Paris, Brussels, Utrecht, Bern and London. Chato himself was on hand for the sparkling opening at London's Tate Gallery. The show's 79 paintings (worth, says Chato, about $14 million) ranged from gilded early Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show...
...herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter finals for the Rimet Cup. Last week the Hungarians came up against the supercharged Brazilians...