Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break his own world decathlon record in the Olympics last week, Bob Mathias, the U.S.'s one-man track team, felt "pretty licked" after the first chilly, overcast day. He took second in the 100-meter dash, then won the shotput and the 400-meter run in his fastest time, 50.2 sec. In the high jump he placed third with a 6-ft.-2.81-in. leap, a shade off his best ever. But in the broad jump he pulled a thigh muscle and placed sixth. At day's end he was running 27 points behind the record pace...
...performance, gave him a helper. A "wonderful little Finnish official," whose name Bob could not pronounce, trailed Mathias with a scoring book, told him "just how well I had to do to break the record." That was all Tulare's No. 1 citizen needed. He won his 110-meter high hurdle heat and the discus throw. Still 99 points behind his record pace, he took third in the pole vault at 13 ft. 1.47 in., his best vault by 0.72 in. Bob was urged by his faithful scorekeeper to do even better in the two final events. As darkness...
...blonde Russian Amazon, stepped up and heaved the discus 168 ft. 8½ in., an Olympic record. Minutes later, Czechoslovakia's loose-jointed Emil Zatopek, who runs as if fighting off a seizure of St. Vitus' dance, dashed through the tape to win the 10,000-meter run final in 29 min. 17 sec., smashing his own 1948 Olympic record...
...Manhattan College's Lindy Remigino, who won the 100-meter dash in a photo-finish with Jamaica's Herb McKenley and Britain's Emanuel McDonald-Bailey. Time for all three sprinters...
Cornell's Charley Moore, who beat out Russia's surprising Jurii Lituev to take the 400-meter low hurdles in 50.8 sec., equaling the Olympic record he set while qualifying in an earlier heat...