Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story on the population explosion seven years ago (TIME, Jan. 11, 1960), we quoted from a United Nations projection which suggested that 600 years hence there will be only one square meter for each person on earth to live on, unless some new means of population control are found. Scientists, our story said, looked ahead to "the still-undiscovered oral contraceptive...
Harvard divers Bill Murphy and Pete Alter were eliminated Saturday after the first round of the three-meter diving competition at the NCAA swimming championships in East Lansing, Mich. Murphy, diving in his first national championships, slipped up in an early dive and was unable to gain enough points to remain in the contest...
Murphy shocked the Eastern diving world last weekend by upending Princeton's Holt Manness -- 1966 National champ -- in the three meter Eastern finals at Yale. Off that performance and his fourth place in the one meter competition, the red-headed sophomore won a trip to the nationals...
Strollers wear jingle bells at their ankles, beads or flowers at their throats, and strum guitars or tootle flutes. It is not rare to see a Haight Street hippie put a dime in a parking meter, then flake out along the curb for a legal dose of sun tan. Wall posters, in the style of China's Red Guard movement, abound-most of them signed "Love" or "Peace" and bearing such timeless messages as "Gypsy come home-your mother is pushed out of shape...
Only four men have ever run the 100-meter dash faster than the San Jose (Calif.) State College senior, who has clocked 10.1 sec. (the world record is 10 sec. flat); the 100 is not even his specialty. Only a handful can long-jump farther; Smith has done 26 ft. 10 in. unofficially, even though he has never practiced the event. In the 220-yd. dash, nobody comes anywhere close. Last spring in San Jose, Tommie ran the 220 on a straight course in 19.5 sec., clipping .5 sec. off Dave Sime's ten-year-old world record...