Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even the Minimum. In the 100-meter dash, Florida A. & M.'s Bob Hayes, the world record holder at 100 yds., won easily in 10.2 sec.-but second place went to a Russian, for the first time anybody could remember. And in event after event, the Russians chipped away at the U.S.'s strongest points-making gains with a second place in the 400-meter dash, another in the 800-meter run, and a startling victory in the 400-meter relay, when the sloppy U.S. team finished first but was disqualified for passing the baton illegally. Some...
...refreshing ways, the land has remained true to its leaders' vision of a pastoral "Holy Ireland." The Irish spend only one-fifth as much yearly ($8,000,000) for defense as New Yorkers pay each year for garbage collection. They do not support a single superhighway, nightclub, parking meter, strip joint or subway. The suicide rate is Europe's lowest. Crimes of any kind are few and getting fewer-although the authorities admit that the nation's commonest transgression, larceny of pedal cycles, bears watching...
...create the Europoort. It needs all the room it can get. Gulf is building a new refinery in the Europoort, Tidewater Oil is moving in, and Britain's big Imperial Chemical Industries has already started a petrochemical complex. The port is building a new grain harbor whose 420-meter jetty will be the world's biggest. Last week, contracts were signed for a $25 million Benelux Tunnel under the Maas River to make access to the outer port easier; Rotterdammers are also building a subway in the soggy soil by dredging a canal down their main street, lowering...
...Conscience. Since nothing heftier than a lingering lyricism is common to his varied compositions, Milhaud has been particularly vulnerable to misunderstanding-or simple dislike-all his life. In his days with the Groupe des Six in Paris, he expanded music's language with his studies of polytonality, meter and counterpoint, but he also wrote music that was crippled by flat jokes, banalities and topical trivia. He has written music for text by the Catholic laureate Paul Claudel-and also a Bar Mitzvah cantata for Israel's 13th birthday. With 15 operas, 12 symphonies, 25 film scores, 15 ballets...
Stroked by sophomore Galen Brewster, the varsity lightweights jumped ahead at the start of the final, but couldn't hold their lead. Losing ground, the Crimson upped the stroke at the 1000-meter mark but Cornell and M.I.T. slowly pulled out in front...