Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swarmed off the university campus in Ciudad Trujillo, smashing statues of the dead tyrant and shouting "Viva la revolución!" One rampaging band of 400 students and sympathizers proclaimed a four-block stretch of downtown Ciudad Trujillo as "free territory." defended it with rocks and cast iron water-meter covers until 100 police drove them out with tear gas and Tommy-gun bursts. Week's toll: four dead, scores injured. At the height of the disorders, Washington confirmed that two brothers of the slain dictator. Héctor and José Arismendi Trujillo, had been granted U.S. transit...
Hour after hour, Western tanks, armored cars and armed Jeeps rumbled slowly back and forth along the frontier, making certain that the Communists did not try to enforce their 100-meter rule. West Berliners remained free to travel the border streets as they pleased. Overhead, U.S. helicopters kept constant watch. Next day, when one water cannon fired a stream at a crowd of West Berliners, G.I.s of the 6th Infantry Regiment, who were also splattered, reached grimly for the tear gas grenades that they carried conveniently on their shoulder straps. The squirting stopped abruptly...
...swimming championships in Philadelphia was ash-blonde Chris von Saltza, 17, who hoped to climax her competitive career by winning six gold medals. But Chris's retirement party was ruined by a willowy, 16-year-old upstart, Carolyn House of Los Angeles, who beat Chris in the 400-meter freestyle, also won the 200-meter and 1,500-meter races to swim off with three gold medals...
...Soviet meet, the U.S. team was in high key, and the two-day competition produced performances of a caliber rarely seen in a non-Olympic year. Willowy Wilma Rudolph tied her world record of 11.3 sec. in the 100-meter dash, anchored the U.S. women's 400-meter relay team to a new world mark of 44.3 sec. Frank Budd swept to a big victory in the men's 100 meters, and helped the men's relay team set another world record, of 39.1 sec. Gary Gubner, muscular 18-year-old New York University freshman, established himself...
...pattern in Germany was similar, but performances were generally poorer -except for Wilma Rudoloh's new record clocking of 11.2 sec. in the 100 meters. Bespectacled Ironman Hayes Jones, 22, of Pontiac, Mich., recalled the days when versatile Harrison Dillard won his specialty-the 110-meter high hurdles-with ease, ran an excellent leg for the winning U.S. 400-meter relay team, then filled in for ailing Sprinter Paul Drayton and placed second in the 100-meter dash. Biggest surprise of the German meet: Sprinter Frank Budd's defeat in the 200 meters by Germany's Manfred...