Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With only seconds remaining before the start of the 220, Rittenburg took his first jump at six feet, which was about the limit of his capability in the event. He soared over with inches to spare, climbed out of the pit, ran over to the 220 starting line, and sprinted to a second place finish in another race he had never run in serious competition before...
...running today. Late last January, he trimmed his weight by 20 pounds, entered the Boston Athletic Association Indoor Meet, and ran a respectable, though non-placing time in the hurdles. These "periodic comebacks," as McCurdy calls them, are just what you'd expect from Rit. He never recognized a limit on what he might do and there will never be another like...
...Marine Corps is already extended to the leathernecked limit. In the U.S. the Marines have their 2nd Division (20,000 men), at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in combat readiness-an Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...
...joint will not do). Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders-including homosexuality and bedwetting -each accounted for 11%. So did being 20% overweight or underweight. Bad eyesight claimed 6%, while 7,600 beat the system by being too tall and 3,800 others because they were too short (the upper limit is now 6 ft. 8 in., the lower limit 5 ft.). A surprisingly large number-22,800-were kept out by bad cases of acne...
...time. "The monetary system is now in a continuous and drawnout crisis," says Roy L. Reierson, senior vice president and chief economist of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. Last week Reierson added his voice to those demanding that the London gold pool be closed, and that the U.S. limit its $35-an-oz. sales of bullion to the settlement of debts with other countries. That "selective convertibility" recipe stops short of outright dollar devaluation be cause some gold would remain avail able at today's price. It would also keep U.S. gold losses to a minimum. The free...