Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. By adding nonstop wit and a lovable caddishness to the standard picture of a TV wheelerdealer, Playwright Ronald Alexander has boosted the industry's ratings-at least on Broadway's laugh meter...
Other Russians did nearly as well. Going all out to win the men's 1,500 meters, Speed Skater Ants Antson, 25, hurled himself bodily across the finish line-and slid headfirst into a snowbank. Claudia Boyarskikh, 24, a sturdy Siberian schoolteacher, led a 1-2-3 sweep in the grueling women's 10,000-meter cross-country ski race, also won the 5,000 meters, collected still a third gold medal as anchor woman on the victorious 15-kilometer relay team. Vladimir Melanin, described as "a 30-year-old student," coolly plinked 20 straight bull...
...With only one jumper still left on the hill, Norway's Toralf Engan seemed to have the 70-meter ski jump all sewed up. But the last jumper had other ideas: arms pressed tight along his sides, nose almost touching the tips of his skis, Finland's VEIKKO KANKKONEN soared 259 ft. 2 in., landed soft as a feather to score 229.9 points and edge Engan by 3.6 points...
...Gutwirth rented a sound-level meter and measured the lionlike snores of Mr. Sheir as they came through the wall. A newspaper reporter who auditioned the Sheir snore, live, felt that all this electronic gear was unnecessary because "even to the naked ear [it] sounded like a circular saw going through a pine knot...
...B.A.A. games Saturday night the Crimson has a couple of dark horses. A two-mile field paced by Tom O'Rlordan, who won the event in 1962, and national 5000-meter record holder Peter McArdle might get some competition from sophomore star Walt Hewlett, the All-American cross-country runner who's making his indoor debut...