Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ryun. Already the fastest miler in history at 3 min. 51.3 sec., the University of Kansas sophomore had little hope of beating that time last week. Nowadays, world mile records are nearly always the result of careful planning and coordination: human mechanical rabbits are employed to insure a fast early pace, and the whole operation is carefully monitored by coaches armed with timing charts and stop watches. But there were no rabbits at Bakersfield, and the pace was so slow on the first lap that Ryun reluctantly decided to do his own pacemaking. His time at the half...
...behalf of the National Council of Churches, admits that "quite a few of us are getting tired of hashing over the same issues and crossing each other's paths." President James I. McCord of Princeton Theological Seminary shares Williams' view that the ecumenical societies are proliferating too fast, fears that "talking may become an end in itself...
...politically, Sullivan considers himself a middle-of-the-roader on the plausible ground that "the middle of the road means where the road is." A knowledgeable theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. T. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast for the church's faithful. "The ordinary man in the pew," he says, "reminds me of someone who has been ten rounds in the ring with Cassius Clay. He's been faced by the new theology, the new morality, church reunion, liturgical reform. I think the church...
...caustic old joke is fast losing its bite. True, top amateur tennis players still make a comfortable living-up to $1,000 per tournament in "expense money"-but few any longer refuse to turn pro on the grounds that "I can't afford to." Long a disorganized gypsy sport, pro tennis finally has gone big time. In 1964, the "pro tour" consisted of only eight tournaments worth a total of $80,000 in prize money; this year the pros will play 42 tournaments in the U.S. and abroad, and $600,000 is up for grabs. If he plays...
...basic Bulova watch by introducing two new lines: the low-priced ($10.95 to $29.95) Caravelle, designed to compete with the Timex, and the top-quality Accutron ($125 and up), a battery-powered electronic watch whose tuning-fork action assures precision, makes the timepiece hum instead of tick. So fast did the new lines catch on that Bulova figures their combined dollar-sales volume during the past fiscal year exceeded overall watch sales of either of Bulova's chief U.S. competitors, Elgin and Hamilton. Not content with that, the company further broadened its product line last February by acquiring Universal...