Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...describes the yoga influence in her new exercise book as "when East meets Welch." But Raquel Welch, 42, had a close encounter of a different sort when she posed with the four gold medalists from the U.S. 4 X 200-meter freestyle relay team for the October issue of Vanity Fair. She was "thrilled to meet these wonderful athletes," and describes Bruce Hayes, 21, Mike Heath, 20, David Larson, 25, and Jeff Float, 24, as "shy and awfully nice." Yes, but not that shy. The photo session was going swimmingly when a water hose was turned on in the studio...
World War II may be over, but the Japanese have announced that they will overtake the Russians on Hawaii. Japanese astronomers have submitted a plan to their government to build the world's largest telescope. The approximately $85 million structure would boast a seven-meter diameter reflector, which is one meter larger than the world's largest single mirror telescope, located in the Soviet Union...
Next it was the Soviet-bloc women who put on a show. The Friendship winners were swifter than the Olympic gold medalists in every distance event in track: the 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters. East Germany's Marita Koch bettered Valerie Brisco-Hook's time in the 400 meters by .67 of a second. Yet it was the water that seemed to be their element. At Moscow's Olympic pool, the crowd bellowed its approval as four East German women set a world record in the 400-meter freestyle relay. In the women...
...flying Konstantin Volkov of the the U.S.S.R. cleared 19 ft. ¼in., two inches higher than the winning Olympic vault. Five world records were achieved in the pool. "The water is fast here," said one Soviet fan, and 6-ft. 4-in. Sergei Zabolotnov proved it. In the 200-meter backstroke, he defeated the European record holder, East Germany's Dirk Richter, in a world record time of 1:58.41 sec., slicing more than half a second off the record held by the U.S.'s Rick Carey, who took the gold in the event at Los Angeles...
...give you a hand," Naber said sympathetically. "I'll tell you the place to watch women's diving from, and that's from the underwater portholes with the camera crews. Very privileged place. Especially off the 10-meter board. The girls tend to have what we call pullaways. Their suits can't take the stress of coming into the water at that velocity. We never get complete pullaways, but certainly dramatic enough for the camera people. I could possibly get you in there...