Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pick a hero or a heroine-or even narrow it down to a dozen. Tennessee State University's Edith McGuire, determined to make newsmen eat "all those terrible articles about us last year," led the way to a U.S. sweep in both the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes. Cleveland's Eleanor Montgomery launched herself 5 ft. 71 in. up and over the high-jump bar, thus ending the meet's longest string of personal wins (five straight) by Russia's Taisia Chenchik...
...astonishing thing about the men's meet was that the U.S. did not even field everyone on its first team. Injuries forced out the top three 100-meter sprinters, including the 100-yd. world record holder Bob Hayes, who sat it out for fear of aggravating a pulled leg muscle. But they were hardly missed when 200-Meter Man Henry Carr obligingly boomed home first in the 100, then in the 200, finally ran a leg on a 1,600-meter relay team that won by 70 yds. Milers Tom O'Hara and Dyrol Burleson had to scratch...
...first victory in the triple jump (hop, step and jump). For six years, New Mexico Science Teacher George Young has charged over hurdles and splashed through water in hopeless pursuit of the Soviets; this time he caught them for a richly deserved win in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The U.S. has never produced a better man at 5,000 meters than Bob Schul of Ohio's Miami University; the Russians did not believe it -until he left them staggering with a blazing 54.8 sec. for the last...
...second series of America's Cup trials neared an end, anyone who hoped to defend the cup for the U.S. against Britain this September had to beat American Eagle and her brilliant skipper, Bill Cox. In six official races in the current series, the big new twelve-meter has defeated Constellation once, Nefertiti once, Columbia twice, Easterner twice. Her overall record in the first two series of trials: twelve victories, no losses...
...only boat that seems to stand a chance of plucking Eagle's tail feathers is Constellation, the other new twelve-meter. Under the command of Eric Ridder, Constellation lost her first three races against Eagle. But last week Relief Helmsman Bob Bavier, 46, a veteran blue-water sailor, took over, and Constellation led Eagle around the first two marks when the race was called on account of fog. On the strength of that performance, the Eagle eye is sure to be on Constellation in next month's final trials. But most of the experts are still giving...