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...George King (4:10.1) and Chicago's Phil Coleman (4:10.7). Next night in Washington, B.C., Tabori switched to the two-mile run, dropped out on the twelfth lap with stomach cramps. The winner: Polish Refugee John Macy (9:02.6), now a student at the University of Houston. Olympic Hurdles Champion Lee Calhoun came back from a Philadelphia defeat by Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell and beat Campbell in Washington with a world indoor record 8.2 sec. time for the 70-yd. high hurdles. Olympian Ira Murchison improved on a disputed victory over Duke's Dave Sime...
John Gurwell, publisher of Houston's suburban Bellaire Texan and River Oaks Times (combined circ. 6,958), says that weeklies "are giving back the home town" to suburbanites who have lost contact with community responsibilities...
...William Vandivert, taking a series of color pictures for this week's story on the modernization of U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS). Vandivert's previous color portfolios for TIME have included such varied pictorial reports as Abilene's Eisenhower Museum (TIME, April 5, 1954), Anderson Hospital in Houston (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954), automation in industry (TIME, March 19) and football at Michigan State University (TIME...
...Discounter Gattegno's "American plague" were just as vehement as those hurled at his American counterparts. Sternly calling on manufacturers to boycott his booming business, French retail-trade papers scornfully labeled him "Monsieur 20%." Virtually the entire Paris press, fearful of losing regular accounts, refused his advertising. Thomson-Houston, the big French equivalent of General Electric, refused to sell him its appliances...
Speculation on the new coach has continued intermittently in the interval since Jordan's dismissal, but there are no announced candidates for the position. Colgate coach Hal Lahar, who said at first that he was interested, has since gone to the University of Houston...