Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slalom race will be held on Suicide Six in Woodstock, Vt, this morning and the eight-mile cross-country is scheduled for Hanover in the afternoon. The downhill will be run Saturday morning on Mt. Sunapee, N.H., and the jumping in Hanover that afternoon on the 40-meter hill...
...Happy Man." A louder complaint about the 1955 cars concerns their size. In Seattle, curbside meter parking spaces laid out at a uniform 20 ft. in 1941, last week were being changed to 22 ft. to accommodate the new models. "If the cars were cut, in half," said Traffic Engineer Emris E. Lewarch, "I'd be one happy man." All over the U.S. home owners with garages built 20 years ago complained that they could no longer close their garage doors on the new monsters. "The new Cadillac is a swell car," said a Los Angeles supersalesman...
Secret Weapon. In San Pablo, Calif., Cab Driver William Myer and Filling Station Attendant William E. Van Meter reported that a gunman had robbed them of $20, handed them a fifth of whisky, gave them six minutes to drink it, thereby rendered them unable to tell their story to police for several hours...
...Morris '49, a cripple since the age of ten because of a broken hip, had swum only for therapeutic reasons before he came to college. He became National AAU long distance champion, winning a four-mile race swum on an open lake, and took first in the 1500-meter Intercollegiate race. He made the 1948 U.S. Olympic swimming team...
...first of two poems in the issue, Alan R. Grossman's "The Sands of Paran" employs Old Testament imagery to describe the plight of a modern world which is the "I" in this poem. The solemn cadence of the meter lends to Grossman's piece a suitable gravity. In "Two Symbols of Reality," Peter Junger uses a sexton as the symbol of death's irony: "Proudly he seeds the rotting earth and plucks sweet fruits out of the mourner's dearth," And his priest who takes "all sins upon his head" seems to be the symbol of human compassion...