Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Timers stared at their watches in pop-eyed disbelief. Spectators flipped the pages of month-old A.A.U. swimming handbooks and decided that they had wasted the purchase price. The pool at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium was boiling with record breakers. Before the national indoor championships ended, every American short-course mark except the 440-yd. and 1,500-meter freestyle records was suddenly out of date. Among the new champions...
...feet only occasionally. The Crimson's jumpers--Beckwith and Tony Leness--will have to raise this mark over half a foot to beat Yale's leading two men. For the dashes, the varsity will have to depend on only one good performer, Frank Yeomans, who has tied the indoor record for the 60 yard dash at 6.3 seconds...
...were, and we asked no more of them." Warned Fayssat: "We are afflicted in 1961 with the same needs as the old guards of the empire, the musketeers of Louis XIII. the legionnaires of Caesar, and Cro-Magnon man." But the council heartlessly ruled that in the age of indoor plumbing, the vespasienne was outmoded. By 1963. the last one would be razed...
Downstairsville, there is a two-story, chandeliered, oak-paneled living room with teakwood floors and a trap door through which you can drop twelve feet into a kidney-shaped indoor pool. "That," I'll tell my visitors, "is where we throw the old, discarded girls." At the end of the pool is a waterfall, and you can swim through it twosies into a dark, warm grotto which has wide ledges at the sides, softened with plastic-cover-ed cushions...
...while trouncing Record Holder Al Lawrence, 30. In Chicago, running in the cramped event of the mile that barely let him get warmed up, Kidd not only finished a respectable second to Hungary's lean Istvan Rozsavolgyi, 31, but turned the distance in 4:09.4 to set an indoor mark for schoolboys. "Phenomenal is not the right word for Kidd," says Manhattan College's Coach George Eastment. "He's better than that." Relaxing Flap. Kidd has such natural talent that he can scorn the accepted theories of track. He runs so far forward on his feet that...