Word: marathoning
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...Chiswick, England, wiry (128 Ibs.) Jim Peters, 34, ran the fastest time ever recorded for the marathon distance of 26 miles, 385 yards. Peters covered the course in 2:18:40.2, nearly eleven seconds faster than the best previous time set by Japan's Keizo Yamada at the Boston Marathon last April...
Unless Judge Medina grants pending defense motions to dismiss the charges, the defense may take still another couple of years to present its case in the marathon trial. "Thus," speculated the New York Times last week, "the life expectancy of the judge, who in this case has already spent five years in pre-trial and trial proceedings, becomes another complicating factor in antitrust jurisprudence...
They start the two-day annual marathon today, as the University waits to hear the name of its new President...
...quiet conference outside the Senate chamber last week, Majority Leader Robert A. Taft and New Mexico's Clinton Anderson (whose ailing heart was beginning to hamper his leadership of the marathon-talking Democratic opposition) agreed that it was time to call a halt to the 21-day offshore oil filibuster (TiME, May 4). The Senate quickly approved a plan to vote this week on the Holland bill, which grants seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries. In total, the filibuster: 1) aroused no public outcry against the bill, 2) changed few senatorial...
...Rene's escapades form the main plot. They take her on a quick whirl through reform school, a marathon party with some furloughing G.I.s, a brush with genteel do-gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers...