Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bible translations seem to be born every year: there are Bibles in Basic English, in meter, in I-see-the-cat prose for kindergartens, in Reader's Digest-like condensations. But the New English Bible that is being translated by British Protestant scholars is no such trifle. It is a serious effort to create an accurate Bible in contemporary prose, and its sponsors hope that it will be good enough to replace the King James Version in Christian worship services. The New Testament went on sale last year; the Old will not be ready for publication until...
...record of Henry Mercer's 12-meter Weatherly spoke for itself. Three times off Newport last week, Weatherly trounced Ross Anderson's Nefertiti to make a runaway of their climactic duel for the right to defend the America's Cup next month against Australia's Gretel. In each of the three races, the boat skippered by Bus Mosbacher won by a bigger margin...
...Chicago's Portage Park pool, arms flailing and legs churning. On the fourth lap, the freckle-faced blonde in Lane 4 began to pull away-increasing her lead with each powerful stroke, while her competitors strained vainly to match her pace. At the finish of the 1,500-meter freestyle, Carolyn House was a full 30 meters ahead. Her time: 18 min. 44 sec.-smashing the world record by 18.8 sec. During the next three days at the A.A.U. championships, 17-year-old Carolyn added the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle titles -the second year...
...there was no merriment aboard the four sleek U.S. 12-meter yachts standing tall and aloof across the water. The final elimination trials were at hand, and crewmen waited tensely for the starting gun that would send them off, two by two, under the stern eye of the selection committee, in pursuit of U.S. yachting's biggest prize: the right to battle Australia's Gretel next month in defense of the III in-year-old America...
...odds are enormous. Gretel is the first 12-meter yacht ever built in Australia, and her crew is untried in the boat-to-boat duels of match racing. But, says Packer, "we came to Newport for only one reason-to win," and he has spared no effort or expense. Designer Alan Payne spent twelve months and $18,000 of Packer's money testing hull models in the tank at New Jersey's Stevens Institute. The product of those tests is a 6g-ft. 5-in. hull of Honduras mahogany that took nine months to build. Gretel...