Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friendly Natives. The engaging friendliness of most people in the U.S. never fails to amaze foreign tourists. A Manhattan cab driver drove one Dutch couple around New York with his meter shut down because "I want to show you a city I'm proud of. If you took the trouble to come over here, I can take the trouble to show you some of the city." Driving through Alabama, a German tourist with German plates on his car noticed that he was being tagged by an American car. The car finally pulled up alongside of him, and the driver...
...slide converter, offered free by Icelandic Airlines, which changes American clothing sizes to European, pints to liters, Fahrenheit to centigrade, and reveals a hefty 90-60-90 as a svelte 36-24-36, making one man's meter another man's person...
Saturday, at Ithaca, the combined Penn-Cornell team registered a stunning upset over Oxford-Cambridge, 8 to 7. (In these meets, only first places count in the scoring.) Meanwhile, Herb Elliott of Cambridge, who will join the English for the meet here, was a discouraging fifth in an 800-meter race in Zagreb, Yugoslavia...
...entered Bakersfield (Calif.) College, and cut his running times to a creditable 9.4 sec. in the 100, 20.6 in the 220. Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily, was eliminated in the loo-meter quarter-finals-Johnson transferred to San Jose State to work under canny Track Coach Lloyd ("Bud") Winter, who developed U.S. Sprinters Ray Norton and Bobby Poynter...
Violators must now pay $5 for each offense when parking within ten feet of a hydrant, within 20 feet of an intersection, or within the properly defined limits of a bus stop. For all other offenses (parking overtime at a meter, etc.), offenders must pay $1, $2, $3, $4, and $5 respectively for the first five violaitons. Thereafter, the fine is $5 for every offense...