Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jungle. In Thomasville, N.C., Gene Thomas Liverett, charged with boring a hole in the back of a parking meter, got a suspended sentence on condition that he not be found within 5 ft. of a parking meter for the next year...
...Courtney, Olympic 800-meter champion, was named assistant track coach yesterday, following approval by the Faculty Committee on Athletics. A former Fordham ace, presently in his second year at the Harvard Business School, Courtney will work as a middle distance specialist...
...answer seemed to lie in the complicated formula of twelve-meter-boat design, basically the art of making improvements on existing models. U.S. Designer Olin Stephens improved on the best there was: Vim, a 19-year-old Stephens creation that swept the class back in 1939. Britain's David Boyd, in his first attempt at a twelve-meter, had to improve principally on Evaine, an old British boat that Vim trounced...
Designer Boyd admitted frankly that he had slipped on Sceptre, said that if he ever got the chance to design another twelve-meter, "I think I'll go ask Olin Stephens to let me have a look at the lines of Columbia." But Stephens made it plain that the champion's blueprints will remain a secret, just as Vim's have all these years...
...same questions from the same guys, over and over.'' The landlubbers also got help from amateur newsmen who had persuaded their home-town editors to send them off to the races because they were salty sailors. Blonde, blue-eyed Betsy Wolfe, 22, sleek as a twelve-meter yacht, and an old crewing hand, turned out so well for the Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette that her salary was raised from $6 a story to $100 for the final week. Covering for the Canton (Ohio) Repository was Lawyer