Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stretched his legs again. Hiding behind dark glasses and a grey fedora, he walked almost unrecognized among the skiers and sleigh riders of Battery Kemble Park. This week the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell, hopes to get him to relax by swimming for the first time in the indoor pool that was built for Franklin Roosevelt...
...tradition, the Millrose Games annually begin the frantic swirl of big-time indoor track at Madison Square Garden. And by tradition, the event has been stag night for the competitors. But last week Millrose officials saw fit to schedule a special 60-yd. dash for the ladies. The reason: to give the New York track crowd its first look at Tennessee State's willowy Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph. 20. triple gold medal winner and the outstanding athlete at last summer's Olympic Games in Rome...
...track team registered more than impressive victories over M.I.T. (72 to 26) and B.U. (86 to 18) in its first two indoor meets before exams. Next Saturday coach Bill McCurdy's untried team takes on its first tough opponent--Army--in a dual meet in Briggs Cage...
Highlights of the B.A.A. Games were John Thomas' 7 foot, 3 inch high jump that now is only second best in the world; a new indoor record of 2:07.9 by smooth-pacing Ernie Cunliffe of Stanford; and the victory in the Hunter Mile of Hungary's Istvan Roszavolgi, who arrived in the country early Saturday morning...
Derived from a game said to have been invented in the U.S. around 1870, indoor handball is now fancied by the hardy of 27 nations, including converts in Japan and Korea. In the game's stronghold of West Germany, where the world championship tournament will be held next March, some 1,500 league games were played last week alone. Current West German champions are a bunch of youngsters who play for the Turnverein Frischauf of Göppingen and who spend their leisure hours working out on parallel bars to develop the agility that will send them hurtling...