Word: meters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cryptic, ordered verses of the haiku before in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums; but since he had read the novel for sex (it was disappointing) their beauty had escaped him. Now, however, he was fascinated with the idea of three line verses which did not require grammar, meter, rhyme, or even logical progression. As Harrison told his roommate after the lecture, "All you gotta remember is that third line that makes the others make sense...
...freckled 15-year-old blonde gripped the starting block with her toes, inhaled deeply, and hit the water at the gun with long, smooth strokes. When she flashed home last week in 4:55.9 for the 400 meters, Chris von Saltza of Saratoga, Calif, had broken her U.S. record by 2.2 sec., neatly finished the job of turning Chicago's Pan-American Games into a one-girl swim. In all, Chris carried off five gold medals: she won the 100, 200 and 400 meters, was a member of the winning team in the 400-meter freestyle relay...
...make her 400-meter victory even sweeter, Chris beat her great home-state rival, Berkeley's husky, 17-year-old Sylvia Ruuska (TIME, Mar. 9) by a full 7.5 sec., established herself as the most promising U.S. freestyler in years. Even so, Chris is still far from her peak. A leggy 5 ft. 10 in., 141 lbs., she is still filling out, should be faster yet in the Rome Olympics next August against the great Australians. Beyond that, her future seems unlimited to her coach, George Haines. "If Chris can keep interested in swimming, she could hit fantastic marks...
...have been busy as sea lawyers (or sea serpents) looking for loopholes, and building boats to make the most of them. Scion of the family-founded Luders Marine Construction Co., wiry, blond Bill Luders, 49, is one of the U.S.'s best sailors (at 16, he was 6-meter champion), knows the formula like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders got a bonus of an extra four...
...family might be. She was "a touching combination of the sane and the ludicrous along with some secret splendor within herself." Come debt or hunger, she would go to the theater, taking her nephew with her, and when there wasn't even a quarter for the gas meter, she would read her novels by candlelight, teaching Moss that the mind can be its own grand and inviolable theater...