Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the Fog. Form counts heavily in points; yet Engan wins mainly because of the fantastic distance he can fly. He was sick and unable to compete for the 1960 Olympic team. But last year he won 22 of the 24 major events he entered, including the 65-meter world championship at Zakopane, Poland. Last week, competing against 72 jumpers from 14 nations in the German-Austrian Four Hills Championship, Engan demonstrated why he is the odds-on favorite to win an Olympic gold medal...
...diving, which was off the one-meter board, was won by sophomore Dan Mahoney with an impressive 89.9 points. His gathering of a near-perfect nine and and an almost never-seen nine and one half would have been remarkable except for the wildly erratic scoring of the three judges, which ranged as much as four points on a single dive...
...brokers to recognize and demand a thorough reform of the freewheeling New York Stock Exchange after the 1929 crash; of cancer; in Manhattan. A sailor by avocation, Shields and his business partner-brother Cornelius helped make yachting a mass U.S. sport by popularizing smaller boats with lower costs-6-Meters, Stars, Interclub Dinghies. Last year he paid more than $300,000 to buy and refit the 12-meter Columbia, successful 1958 America's Cup defender, in hopes of repeating, but the Columbia failed to brace up in trials, and the Weatherly won the 1962 defense against the Australians...
Earlier last week, the two officers, while patrolling Commonwealth Avenue on a special detail to search for parking-meter thieves, noticed Washington on the raised lawn of the Bryant and Stratton School at 2 a.m. In response to questioning from the officers, Washington gave his name, address, where he was coming from, and his destination, but maintained that the officers had no right to ask him anything else without showing good reason...
...trophy. Having tried and failed 16 times in the past in years, Britain wanted to race again-and the sooner the better. To the New York Yacht Club went a formal challenge from London's Royal Thames Yacht Club proposing a race next summer. One new British 12-meter yacht was already abuilding in Scotland (her designer: David Boyd, who also designed the ill-starred Sceptre, which lost four straight to the U.S. in 1958). A second boat was on the drawing boards, and a third might be built. The British proposed to hold their own elimination trials, then...