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...meter race, the field took off, jockeying for position. One lanky runner, starting on the outside lane, cannily let the field pass him, then moved over and settled down to the well-worn groove by the rail-the shortest course. Running with gracefully flowing strides, U.S. Air Force Sergeant Mai Whitfield, 27, moved through the field, passing them one by one. In the homestretch, opening up, the 1948 Olympic champion whizzed to an 8-yd. victory in meet record time of 1:48.6, a full 1.3 seconds faster than the 1936 record of Pittsburgh's famed John Woodruff...
...Cleveland, 1948 Olympics Half-Miler Mai Whitfield legged the 880 in 1 :49.2, to equal the world's record set by Britain's Sidney Wooderson...
...Mai Ben Rai. This moderation even in virtue is characteristic of Siam. As the Spaniard says manana, so the Siamese says mai ben rai. If a government official is proved crooked or a wife unfaithful, if a favorite gamecock refuses to fight or an old friend proves treacherous, the Siamese says mai ben rai. It means never mind...
...spies in Bangkok lodged, as rumor says, in the Oriental Hotel? Mai...
...dishes listed on the menu. This 384 is not a mystic Sino-Siamese number-it derives simply from the fact that all the restaurants patronize the same printer. Most of them have 20-odd dishes on hand, and if the customer can't have what he orders, mai ben rai. And there is beer from all over the world: Mexico's Tecate, America's Pabst, Germany's Klosterbrau, Denmark's Carlsberg...