Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make her 400-meter victory even sweeter, Chris beat her great home-state rival, Berkeley's husky, 17-year-old Sylvia Ruuska (TIME, Mar. 9) by a full 7.5 sec., established herself as the most promising U.S. freestyler in years. Even so, Chris is still far from her peak. A leggy 5 ft. 10 in., 141 lbs., she is still filling out, should be faster yet in the Rome Olympics next August against the great Australians. Beyond that, her future seems unlimited to her coach, George Haines. "If Chris can keep interested in swimming, she could hit fantastic marks...
...dramatized the fact that in distance racing these days, victory often goes not to the fastest but to the designer who gets the mostest out of The Rule-the complex, 27-page system of handicapping spelled out in detail in 1934 by the Cruising Club of America to even up boats of various shapes, sizes and styles...
This elaborate counterpoint confused even Confidante Maxwell, tireless companion of the rich, who had just thrown her annual party at Venice's Danieli. After consulting her friend "Ari," she supplied a breathless answer to the question of whether Callas and Onassis would marry: "I guess...
...quite young what many people consider the dream life of America: success by my own efforts, a stream of dollars to spend, a penthouse in New York, forays to Hollywood, the companionship of pretty women, all before I was 24 ... There I was in the realms of gold . . . But even as I lived this conventional smart existence of inner show business, and dreamed the conventional dreams, it all seemed thin...
...right, he said, "to defend oneself against an unjust aggressor, even to the point of killing him, when there is no other way of saving one's life. That which holds true in defense of one's life also holds true in the case of un just aggression against the purity of a woman ... I would say that the girl in voked a right and fulfilled a duty. I would add that Christian morality certainly would have condemned her had she re lented and allowed herself to be carried into the woods...