Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just a mention of the subject makes police chiefs turn purple and starts manufacturers pleading for secrecy. But there is no longer any hiding the fact that an epidemic of parking-meter jamming is sweeping the nation. Behind it are the flip-top cans now being used for beer and soft drinks. Each comes with a small pull-ring, which, when twisted free, is near enough to the size of a nickel to fit into a parking meter, either turning it on or jamming...
...ready for exhibition in the fall. And when he is not painting, he continued, he keeps busy photographing God. "God invented man and man invented the metric system," Dali explained. "So to get an image of God, all I need is to photograph a perfect man and a precise meter...
...binge began when California's 17-year-old Mark Spitz, who already held the world marks for the men's 100-meter butterfly and 400-meter freestyle, added the 200-meter butterfly to his collection with a 2-min. 6.4-sec. clocking that pared .2 sec. off the record set in 1964 by Australia's Kevin Berry. Then, swimming the first leg of the men's 400-meter freestyle relay, Michigan's Ken Walsh, 22, was timed in 52.6 sec. for 100 meters, bettering the old mark...
Impressive as they were, those performances were nothing compared with the one turned in by Debbie Meyer, a tiny, blonde, 14-year-old naiad from Sacramento, Calif. Daughter of a plant manager, Debbie startled experts last month when she broke two world records (for the 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle) in one race at Santa Clara, Calif. At Winnipeg last week, Debbie was matched in the women's 400-meter freestyle against the reigning world record holder, Pamela Kruse, 17, of Pompano Beach, Fla. She obviously has no respect for her elders. Leaving the aging Pamela struggling...
...meter (about 1 1/4 mile) race was held on Winnipeg's floodway, the world's second largest ditch after the Panama Canal. It is used to absorb the floodwaters of the Red River. The Pan-American Games authorities flooded three miles of the 26-mile floodway...