Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others: Second Lieut. Laszlo Tabori, 24, who shares the 1,500-meter record with Iharos; Captain Istvan Rozavolgyi, 26, 2,000-meter record holder; Textile Factory Worker Jozsef Kovacs, 29, who has tied the world record at 10,000 meters; Budapest Fireman Lajos Szentgali, 23, 800-meter specialist...
...Carter and freshman Joel Landau will probably run the 120-yard high hurdles, while Mike Gordon will enter the 400-meter hurdles, a special pre-Olympic event. Another Olympic event, the 3000-meter steeplechase, will be run by Dave Norris, Ralph Perry, and either Dave McLean or freshman Bill Gillen...
Died. Lieut, (j.g.) David Greig ("Skippy") Browning Jr., 24, star of the 1952 Olympics as the U.S.'s dazzling three-meter diving champion, national collegiate one-and three-meter diving champ (1951-52); in the crash of a North American FJ-3 Fury jet fighter while on a training flight; near Rantoul, Kans...
...City was mechanization. The Caterpillar powerplant with hydraulic ice cream dipper was part of the sidewalk force. Special emphasis was laid on clearing the sidewalks by Cambridge Mayor, Eddie J. Sullivan, so that local police could issue tickets for longstanding meter violations without getting their hip-boots wet. Asked if the Police would tag buried cars, the Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves...
...three meter dive, however, Greg Stone turned in his best performance of the year to take a third behind Frank Knight of Army and Ron Keenhold of Lehigh. Yale's Doug Starkweather failed to qualify for the finals...