Word: hr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting over the hardware at a Milwaukee banquet honoring them as the Associated Press's athletes of the year were Wilma Rudolph Ward, 21, the world's speediest woman, and Roger Moris, 27, HR 61. Roger was reportedly busy haggling for a 100% pay boost; Wilma, just married to a Tennessee State schoolmate, seemed intent on homemaking ("Most of the Russian women runners in the last Olympics had two or three children, and that didn't bother them...
...tack on "imperialism," but the mere hint of self-determination for the disputed northern Indian province of Kashmir, which is claimed by Pakistan, brings forth a geyser of indignant oratory. In January 1957 he defended India's right to Kashmir with the longest speech in U.N. history-7 hr. 48 min. Blithely Menon also ignores Russia's satellite colonialism. Questioned about East Germany's fetters, he answered: "Self-determination can't be applied in such a way as to be impractical." Indian critics say that in his post as Defense Minister, Menon has promoted left-wing...
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS. The third important film produced by the Italian rinascinemento (cinema renaissance) of 1960-61. Director Luchino Visconti's monumental (2 hr. 29 min.) investigation of what happens (rape, murder, homosexuality) to a poor family when it moves from a village to Milan...
...Indonesian volcano Krakatoa sent out air waves that registered easily on the crude barographs of the period. Big as the Soviet bomb was, its waves were far weaker than the volcano's, but the time they took to circle the earth was almost exactly the same: 36 hr. 27 min. Small variations in their speed were due to varying winds and temperatures. Carpenter is now putting the Soviet bomb test to unexpected and peaceful use: he is asking the world's scientists to send him copies of their barograph records so that he can study atmospheric conditions revealed...
...timed the release of his movie to coincide with the reading of the judgment in the trial of Adolf Eichmann. But despite a singularly adroit performance by Maximilian Schell (Maria's younger brother), Judgment is on the whole just one more courtroom meller and an awful long (3 hr. 20 min.) meller at that...