Word: meete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, Shotputter Parry O'Brien was watching a track meet from the stands, saw University of Southern California Freshman Dallas Long uncork a heave of 63 ft. 4 in., apparently breaking O'Brien's world record. O'Brien promptly left his seat, changed into a track suit, went out and heaved the shot 63 ft. 6 in. Said O'Brien: "I had to do it. What would people think?" But neither performance counted because the field sloped...
Garlands of Marigolds. Cambridge Students Stephen Longley and John Dearlove say they intend to drive motor scooters 10,000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York (although last week the scooter manufacturer was being sticky about free samples), and it is possible that they will meet Fellow Scholar Brian Moser heading in the opposite direction. He plans to spend a year riding a horse from Colombia to the wind-lashed Tierra del Fuego, near the southern tip of the continent. As he limbers up, another Cambridge group far off in the Belgian Congo will be busy at their study...
...Pennsylvania Railroad approved construction of 11,500 new freight cars, beginning an extensive program to meet growing business...
Yale tripled the varsity's score in winning the meet, totaling 51 7/10 to the Crimson's 17 1/5. Army took second with 41 points, followed by surprising Navy with 38 1/5 and Penn with 29 7/10. Cornell, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth and Princeton finished well back...
Meanwhile, in New York's Madison Square Garden, Freshman Ted Bailey impressed K. of C. Meet spectators with a third-place performance in the weight event...