Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third leg on Southern Cal's sprint relay team that set a world record of 38.6 sec. for 440 yds. But Flanker Jim Lawrence runs the 100 in 9.6 sec. End Earl McCullouch is a co-holder of the world rec ord (13.2 sec.) for the 110-meter-high hurdles. And Fullback Mike Hull, at 230 Ibs. the heavyweight of the U.S.C. backfield, has been clocked at 5.6 sec. for 50 yds. in full football gear...
...avoid shutting down large portions of the city water system when they began installing water meters at every residence, water-department workers in Boulder, Colo., turned to cryogenics. At each house, they poured liquid nitrogen over the inlet pipes, which froze the water inside for 20 minutes and enabled them to install the meter without losing so much as a drip...
...Penthouse. An adulterous real estate dealer (Terence Morgan) and his bird (Suzy Kendall) appropriate his client's penthouse pad for a love-in. Next morning two men (Tony Beckley and Norman Rodway) arrive, ostensibly to check the gas meter. A moment later, one of them brandishes a switchblade knife and suddenly gives the tryst a dreadful twist. Introducing themselves as Tom and Dick-Harry, they giggle, is waiting downstairs-the men truss Morgan with ribbons, and force Kendall to down tumblers of Johnnie Walker and puff on a marijuana joint. Then, mind-blown and stoned, she is twice raped...
There was talk of runoff races, on the order of tennis' Davis Cup eliminations, to determine which country will compete against the U.S. Whatever crew it is will have its work cut put. Intrepid'?, architect, Olin Stephens, is brimming with ideas for an even faster 12-meter. Its sails, naturally, will be made by Ted Hood. And who will sail the boat? Said Mosbacher: "Given the same team, I would consider another Cup defense...
Irked by complaints that previous nets had not screened out all contestants of doubtful femaleness, the I.A.A.F. ordered chromosome tests for European Cup competitors at Kiev. Ewa, co-holder of the women's 100-meter world record (11.1 sec.), saw no need to duck the test and readily submitted to having a few cells scraped from inside her cheek for chromosome analysis. On the basis of the microscope's evidence, three Russian and three Hungarian doctors gave the fatal verdict: Ewa is not a woman because she has "one chromo some too many...