Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hobart, Tasmania, she chased Australia's lisa Konrads so closely in the 880-yd. free style that 14-year-old lisa broke her own world record, explained: 'Syl was on me tail." Last week, at her farewell appearance in Melbourne, versatile Sylvia tackled the individual medley event (requiring backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and free-style laps), set world records at 440 yds. and 400 meters with a 5:41.1 clocking...
Corn the Key. If any single event can be said to have touched off the farm revolution, it was the development of hybrid corn. It opened the eyes of farmers and scientists alike to the vast increase that could be made in food production. Following Mendelian genetic principles, Professor George Harrison Shull of the Carnegie Institution of Washington developed the first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work...
Meanwhile, in New York's Madison Square Garden, Freshman Ted Bailey impressed K. of C. Meet spectators with a third-place performance in the weight event...
Joel Landau, the Crimson's ace hurdler, would have been the favorite in his event a week ago. But Landau has been having trouble with his form, and last week in the IC4A meet he was eliminated in the semifinals. The eventual winner in the IC4A, sophomore Angelo Sinisi of Brown, could finish first if Landau slips, and Keith Moore of Yale, the 1957 champion, will also be a threat...
...most star-studded event of the evening, the 1000, the varsity's Art Cahn will have to improve even to place. Tommy Carroll, the Yale sophomore who turned in a 1:54 leg in the two-mile relay three weeks ago, is a prohibitive favorite, and defending titlist Ed Slowik could give the Elis a one-two sweep...