Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from a girl was by whether the bathing suit had a top. Seattle's Steve Krause, 15, surprised everybody including himself ("I never dreamed that I would swim that fast") when he splashed to a new world record of 16 min. 58.6 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle. California's Claudia Kolb, 15, won the women's 100-meter breast stroke, the 200-meter breast stroke and the 200-meter individual medley, topped it off by helping her Santa Clara Swim Club team to victory in the 400-meter medley relay. Then there was a trio...
...that company, Martha Randall at an aging 17 almost seemed to be a has-been. At the Tokyo Olympics last year, the best she could do was a third in the 400-meter individual medley. "One more year," she said then, and this summer she began commuting daily from her home in Wayne, Pa., to Philadelphia to swim six miles a day under the watchful eye of Coach Mary Kelly. "Martha's a very quiet girl," said Kelly, "but a very determined girl...
...meter freestyle at the A.A.U. meet, her competitors included the defending world-record holder (at 4 min. 39.5 sec.) Marilyn Ramenofsky, and Patty Caretto who only two days before had set a new world mark for 1,500 meters. For the first 300 meters, it was strictly a two-girl race-with Martha third. Then she began to sprint, flashed past Ramenofsky, overhauled Caretto in the last lap, and drew out to win by 2.5 sec. Her time: a record-smashing 4 min. 39.2 sec. Next day, just to prove it was no fluke, Martha also won the 200-meter...
...orders to "make hard and fast decisions on the spot to assist each affected community." During his tour, Udall warned New York Mayor Robert Wagner that his city was "on the edge of disaster." New York, is one of the nation's few major cities that does not meter water consumption in residences. It has also failed to tap its biggest potential source, the Hudson River. Johnson reminisced privately that "from earliest memory" of his arid birthplace, he regarded water as the "determining factor in our happiness or sorrow." He had some plain-spoken hill-country advice...
...Belgium's Gaston Roelants, 28: the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8 min. 26.4 sec., clipping an impressive 3.2 sec. off his own 1963 world record; in Brussels...