Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympic competition, the decathlon most closely reflects the original Greek ideal of all-round athletic excellence. An entire track and field meet in miniature, its ten events in two days add up to the toughest individual test of speed, stamina, strength and spirit ever devised. The man who wins the Olympic decathlon well deserves to be known as the finest athlete in the world. That man last week was William Anthony Toomey, a 29-year-old schoolteacher from Santa Barbara, Calif., who not only captured the gold medal but set an Olympic record in the process...
...those losses by winning the women's 200-meter, 400-meter and 800-meter freestyles, despite a strained ankle and a bad case of the notorious turistas that almost forced her to with draw from the competition. By week's end, in the most lopsided Olympic swimming meet ever, the U.S. had won 23 of the 33 events, finished one-two-three in five of them, and collected 58 out of all 99 swimming medals in the Olympic trophy case...
This chilling sequence-perhaps the finest single scene that Godard has ever filmed-is only the beginning. During the couple's repeatedly interrupted trip, which lasts for the rest of the movie, wrecked autos, hideously dismembered bodies and senseless violence meet them at every turn. There are a few irrelevant respites, such as a Mozart sonata on the sound track while the camera pans around a farm at sunset, and a couple of overlong political harangues on black revolution and the war in the Mid dle East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road...
...freshman cross country team takes a 7-2 season record into this afternoon's crucial meet against Princeton and Yale at Princeton...
...basis of comparative scores, the Tiger harriers are pre-meet favorites. All three teams have lost to Penn's outstanding squad, but Princeton's record is otherwise untarnished. Harvard and Yale have also dropped dual meets to Cornell and Dartmouth, respectively...