Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gonna Win." To beat the muscular Kuznetsov, Rafe Johnson had to better his best, since only ten weeks ago Kuznetsov had scored 8,013-28 points better than Johnson's own world-record 7,985. The Russians shortened the interval between events from half an hour to 20 minutes, but it bothered Rafe not a bit. "I like the interval even shorter," he said, "only about five or ten minutes to catch my breath." With the event half over...
...share top billing with 16-year-old Sylvia Ruuska of Berkeley, Calif., another potential world-beater who specializes in the longer distances. Sylvia set a world record (5:43.7) in the 400-meter individual medley, an American mark (20:34.6) in the 1,500-meter freestyle. In the one event where the two met, Sylvia used her greater strength to outlast the smoother-stroking Chris in the 400-meter freestyle. At week's end, U.S. prospects for dethroning the Australian girls looked brighter...
...criticized as imperialism. But Mahan's quiet point-applicable in the Middle East today -was that overwhelming U.S. power ought to be deployed not for ill ends of world conquest but for wise ends of deterring war and safeguarding peace in which all mankind could prosper. In any event, wrote Mahan in 1890, "Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward . . ." For a view of a naval commander with a 1958 outward look, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS-Restrained Power...
...rocket-rattling boasts by Nikita Khrushchev and of policeman's caution by his head cop, Ivan Serov, in the Nasser-Khrushchev huddle in the Kremlin a fortnight ago undoubtedly underlined for Gamal Abdel Nasser one fact: the U.S. arrival in the Middle East was a big new event that outweighs Moscow's words...
...Basel a few critics tried to take a longer view, and delivered some hedged but daring predictions. German University Professor Wilhelm Boeck concluded: "An artistic event of intercontinental size that will surely affect the development of European painting. It places America next to Paris as a first-class power." Said Frankfurt Critic Albert Schulze Vellinghausen: "It's new and it's strong and it's important...