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...Zealand's Peter Snell, 23, world's fastest miler (3:54.4), over the U.S.'s best, Oregon's Dyrol Burleson, in a new American record time of 3:56.1; at Los Angeles Coliseum Relays. Burleson clung to the pace for three laps, but on the final go-round Snell turned on his famous kick, sprinted the last 220 yds. in a blazing 24.5 sec., hit the tape more than...
...will meet face to face at the Fresno, Calif., West Coast Relays this week, and again at the Los Angeles Coliseum next week. Tork's goal: 17 ft., which seems not too far out of reach considering the fact that he narrowly missed 16 ft. 5 in. just after setting the new record...
...buildings. There is the Space Needle, typifying the theme of "the world of Century 21''; a sort of Eiffel Tower dipped in concrete, its sheaf-of-wheat shape rises 608 ft. and makes it the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. The 3½-acre Washington State Coliseum, blessedly free of interior supports and decorative gimmicks, not only serves as one of the fair's chief display areas, but will be used later for sports events (capacity: 20,000) and, Seattle hopes, national political conventions. A 3,100-seat opera house, built in the shell of Seattle...
...sleek item in the Sixth International Automobile Show, which opened in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, was turned back by its original purchaser because it gave him cold feet. A politician had ordered the grey, four-passenger Fiat 2300 coupe as last year's Christmas present to his wife, then canceled the order when he remembered the number of voters in Detroit...
Rites of Spring. Flower shows are an annual rite of spring* all over the U.S. Manhattan's closed a fortnight ago after setting an alltime attendance record of 250,000 visitors in nine days. The trend at the Coliseum was toward bigger blossoms and smaller plants (one new product called Phosphon promised to produce "compact plants with full-sized blooms and shorter, stronger stems that do not fall over). The leaning to gigantism was reflected in row upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show...