Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genial, handsome U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson, 23. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S Sportsman of the Year for 1958, got to his feet to accept his award. In shy dignity, Johnson, California Negro who last July in Moscow scored an astounding 8,302 points to win a tense, ten-event duel with Russia's Vasiliy Kuznetsov, thanked his parents for "making it all possible," added quietly: "I have but one goal in life: to live like an American...
Crunchy Snow. After this climactic event Astronomer Kuiper thinks the moon led an increasingly peaceful life. It picked up the rest of the small satellites, which made the fresh-looking pits on its surface. Cosmic rays and other high-speed particles bombarded its surface, riddling the material with microscopic holes. This beaten-up stuff is only an inch or so thick, says Kuiper, and it is not dust. He thinks it would feel underfoot "like crunchy snow...
...novel is an expanded version of a short story that appeared in The Anatomy Lesson (TIME, May 27, 1957), but added incident does not necessarily bring greater understanding. When catastrophe breaks into his heroine's hothouse existence, the author flinches nearly as much as she: the event is seen from the outside, and the reader cannot know if Mrs. Bridge feels any more deeply than the cliches she utters. He is a gentler observer than Philip Wylie, but Connell's conclusions about U.S. womanhood may not be too different. He has one of his suburban matrons passionately...
Abbott finished second in the shot to Stew Thompson of the New York Athletic Club, topping B.U.'s Eino Keerd and Larry Cafarella, who defeated him earlier in the season. Despite his fine effort, Bailey went unplaced in the weight event...
Aside from Landau and Abbott, though, none of the Crimson entrants placed in the individual events. Dave Brahms was left behind in the Farrell 500, won by Basil Ince of Tufts, and dashman Larry Repsher finished last in his heat. The varsity field event men also fared badly against some of the best high jumpers and broad jumpers in the nation...