Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...again run or prophesied on the sunnier side of the Iron Curtain. Last week the Czech Ministry of Sports announced that capitalist-praising Zatopek will not compete again until he recovers from a sprained ankle (a fortnight ago, Iron-Man Zatopek ran a poor fifth in a 5,000-meter race in Prague). The mystery, however, was not solved by one bad showing of the Communists' greatest Olympics record-smasher (in the 5,000-and 10,000-meter runs, and the 26-mile, 385-yd. marathon). Only Zatopek's presence and performance in the Olympics will disclose whether...
...tall, redheaded sprinter with the free-floating stride made his bid on the turn of the 200-meter dash. Challenging for the lead, Dave Sime, the world's fastest man (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.) and the nation's prime Olympic prospect in two events, suddenly grimaced, slowed to a painful hobble with a pulled groin muscle...
Because of the U.S. Olympic Committee's self-imposed arbitrary method of selecting the U.S. Olympic team, the injury suffered by Dave Sime last week may keep him from running the 200-meter dash in the games at Melbourne this November. The U.S. team will automatically be picked from the top men in the Olympic tryouts at month's end, but Sime's injury was not likely to heal in time to let him first qualify in the 200 meters at a pretrial meet this week in the National A.A.U. championships at Bakersfield, Calif. Fortunately, Sime qualified...
...Olympic prospects: Shotputter Parry O'Brien, the rugged, big (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.) Californian who smashed his own world record this last week with a flip of 61 ft. 4 in.; Dashman Lou Jones of the Second Army, world record holder in the 400 meters at 0:45.4, who was 0.3 sec. off that time last week; Middle-Distance Runner Arnie Sowell, a wisp of a Negro with the delicate legs of a thoroughbred, who set an American record in the 800 meters at 1 :46.7, just a second slower than the worlds record; and, of course...
Open Verdict. In Cincinnati, after firing Meter Reader Robert V. Lyons when he was charged with stabbing Mrs. Audrey Evers Pugh on a meter-reading visit to her home, the civil service commission gave as its reason for his dismissal: "Discourtesy to the public and failure of good behavior...