Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plate diners had already made it plain in their welcoming ovations that they were enthusiastically pro-Nixon. And on any applause meter, Nixon, who gracefully shelved partisan politics for the evening, came out ahead. But the pattern remained the same. Kennedy looked and talked like a man who knew he was in the 'lead and was willing to take a few irreverent chances...
...science and industry have honored a holy of holies: a bar of platinum-iridium alloy, triple-locked in a subbasement at Sèvres on the outskirts of Paris. Near the ends of the bar were engraved two microscopically thin lines, and the distance between them was exactly one meter-by international agreement, the world standard of measurement. Around the globe, other countries had copies of the bar at Sèvres, and their traditional units of length-feet (3.28 to a meter), versts, li, or whatever -were defined by reference to it. But last week the sacred...
...challenging task was making the United States Olympic team. Things looked dim when he finished third in the indoor AAU's, and failed even to qualify in the outdoor finals. As a collegiate swimmer during the season, he faced the problem of converting to long-course swimming in 50-meter long pools, with two less turns per 100 meters...
...made the semi-finals of the 100-meter trials in seventh place. Yet as if to prove that cliche that performance counts, he took second in the finals. American rules stated that the top two places in the finals go to Rome in that event, and Hunter was there...
Furthermore, he concedes Lt. Jeff Farrell would have won in 54-plus had he competed. Farrell won the tough break trophy of 1960 when he contracted appendicitis a week before the Olympic trials, but thoroughly rewrote the never-give-up book by qualifying in the 800-meter medley relay...