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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meter dash, Toomey hit the tape in 10.4 sec., best time of the day and good enough for 959 points under the complicated decathlon scoring system.* Then, a soaring 25-ft. 9¾-in. long jump, best of Toomey's career, gave him another 994 points and kept him in the lead. After that, a poor 45-ft. Hin. shotput ("That really depressed me") and a disappointing 6-ft. 4¾-in. high jump dropped him to second behind East Germany's Joachim Kirst. Next came the grinding 400-meter run, and after ten straight hours of competition...
...pole vault almost proved a disaster. "I just about had a heart attack when I missed the opening height on my first two attempts," said Toomey. He pulled himself together to vault 13 ft. 91 in., tying his personal record. A 206-ft. i-in. javelin throw kept him in first place, a bare 61 points ahead of West Germany's Bendlin, who had moved into second with a monumental heave...
...since Cortes gave Guatemozin a hotfoot in an effort to make him reveal where the Aztecs kept their gold has Mexico been invaded by such a determined band of treasure hunters as the U.S. Olympic team. "The greatest competitive Olympics in history," as U.S. Track Coach Payton Jordan called them, proved to be a showcase for the multifarious talents of an inspired U.S. squad bent on cornering all the gold in Mexico City-and the silver and bronze as well. The medal score told the story: by week's end, with only a handful of events still...
...been practiced in the South since the turn of the century, is based on Jesus' words in Mark 16: "In my name they will cast out demons; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing it will not hurt them." The snakes, which are kept in special boxes by leaders of the congregation, are usually brought out as the climax to frenzied revival meetings that may last for as long as four hours. "When the ecstasy of the Lord is upon you and you take up serpents," explains Mullins, "you have no fear...
...long ago, Critic-at-Large Marya Mannes justly observed that in a world taken over by size 10 miniskirts and baby body stockings there is little left to clothe the "well-kept figure of an adult woman still loved by a man." This becoming feminine pique over fit-and much other comment on the trying 60s-has been incorporated into a slender futurist fantasy. The publisher, somewhat optimistically, asserts that it is a novel. Alas, the lady has tried to cram a statuesque symposium on life, death and manners into a minisheath of story...