Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Across the country from Squaw Valley, U.S. track stars put on a dazzling show at the national A.A.U. indoor championships in Manhattan, promising a more impressive showing at the Summer Olympics in Rome. In a single night U.S. athletes shattered three world records...
...Army Lieut. Irvin Roberson, 24, onetime star Cornell halfback, jumped 25 ft. 9½ in. to break Jesse Owens' 25-year-old indoor broad-jump record by half an inch...
...hushed Madison Square Garden, lithe (6 ft. 5¼ in., 190 lbs.) High Jumper John Thomas, 18, loped forward, kicked his right leg at the roof and rolled over the bar at 7 ft. 1½ in. to make the mightiest leap in history (indoor or out) and break his own record...
...much affected by the uproar, the young man walks home. "That's another day finished," he says to himself. There is not much to distinguish the young man who is undisturbed by the whore's embarrassment from several other young men in the collection, including the indoor sport who seduces the shallow young wife of the title story. Moravia's people do not really have faces, perhaps because he is less interested in writing of people than in describing the enormous distances that separate them. But he has surveyed those spaces with great exactness. Reconciliation...
...Puffing mightily, Los Angeles' Parry O'Brien, 27, put the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 1 in. to break his own indoor world record by a whopping 11¼ in., share meet honors with Miler Burleson (see above). In Manhattan, The Bronx's heavily girdered (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.) Gary Gubner, 17 (TIME, Jan. 25), finally found a gym big enough for his liking, snapped the national high school indoor record for the 12-lb. shot by 8 in. with a heave...