Word: iras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these have always been U.S. specialties. Now the U.S. was beginning to show championship strength in a whole list of events that it had never won before, had always more or less conceded to other nations. Philadelphia Insurance Man Ira Davis bounced 53 ft. 11 in. to give the U.S. its first victory in the triple jump (hop, step and jump). For six years, New Mexico Science Teacher George Young has charged over hurdles and splashed through water in hopeless pursuit of the Soviets; this time he caught them for a richly deserved win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase...
Another defense witness, Ira Konigsberg, assistant professor of English at Brandeis University, called Fanny Hill a "novel that succeeds...
...also, clearly, the most distant. Since the universe is expanding, its parts that are moving fastest must be farthest away. Measured by Hubble's constant, which translates speed into distance, 3C-147 is about 4 billion light-years away from the earth. But Dr. Ira Bowen, director of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, prefers to say "several billion" lightyears; he suspects that Hubble's constant may not be accurate over such enormous distances...
...What does it take to get Ira to go back to work?" asked Director Billy Wilder four months ago. "To be asked by someone he likes," replied the wife of Ira Gershwin, 67. So Billy asked, and Lyricist Gershwin went back to work for the first time in nine years. Told he could team with anyone on Wilder's upcoming Kiss Me, Stupid, Ira replied that the music would be by his brother...
When George died in 1937, he left notebooks containing perhaps as many as 100 melodies, and Ira has finally decided to release some of them. Fourteen will go to Choreographer George Balanchine for possible use as the score of a ballet, and Ira has already put words to three others. The titles: All the Livelong Day, Sophia and I'm a Poached...