Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost Battle. Last week a retired army officer named Marcel Doher was up for his fourth and last stand on the show. His brawny crutch, France's crack 400-meter relay team, waited on a track nearby. When Doher failed to identify the French priest (Abbe Henriot) who in 1815 became a close friend and horseback-riding crony of Napoleon, the scene shifted to Brawn. The team matched its former record of 45 seconds flat, giving Brain another go at Napoleon, but Doher missed again, and by this time the relay boys were tired. Twice the baton was dropped...
...week with such odd items as a World War I airplane, a collection of vintage automobiles, a chunk of a 17th century galleon. Bellemare draws on a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Brawn, goes after horse jumpers, crossbow experts and ice skaters (Amateur Skater Roger Tourne broke the 500-meter record for France on the show) as well as conventional runners and jumpers. But, says he, picking Brains "is a more difficult business...
...Breaking the 880-yd. and 800-meter freestyle swimming records (TIME, Jan. 20) was so easy for Australia's Latvian Immigrant Jon Konrads, 15, that the tireless teen-ager barely paused for breath before splashing back into North Sydney's Olympic pool and churning past four more marks. He finished the 440-yd. grind in 4:25.9, which was a 400-meter record as well. He sprinted 220 yds. in 2:04.8, setting a new 200-meter mark in the process...
...Dorys Alkire was fined $1 for a parking violation, despite her argument that she had not broken the law by parking her small sports car in a space partly occupied by another sports car because the owner of the first auto had already put the necessary nickel in the meter...
Crash-Proof Meter. A parking meter that swivels on a ball-joint base when hit by a car was developed by Marwin Products of Spokane...