Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other honors: a knighthood for Guardian Cartoonist David Low-who now becomes Sir David-creator of that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy, Colonel Blimp; an Order of the British Empire for New Zealand Runner Peter Snell, world record holder in the mile, half-mile, 1,000-yd. and 500-meter races; Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for Novelist Elspeth Huxley, Poet Stephen Spender, Actor Emlyn Williams...
...made easier by the Instant Photo Vendor, introduced by Quik-Chek Electronics and Photo Corp. The customer places his negative (from 35 mm. to size 120 roll-film) under a glass cover, sets the opening of the enlarging lens according to a number indicated by a built-in exposure meter, and puts a coin in the slot. In 15 seconds, out comes a black-and-white glossy blowup, practically dry. Enlargements four times the negative size can be made. Price per picture...
...Fluke. "I run only when I feel like it," says Snell, and this year he is in a running mood. Despite his upset 800-meter victory over Belgium's Roger Moens in the 1960 Olympics, Snell was still a virtual unknown last January, when he set out to run a sub4 min. mile for the first time. Against lackluster competition, over a slow grass track in the New Zealand town of Wanganui, he blazed through the mile in 3 min. 54.4 sec.-clipping a tenth of a second from Herb Elliott's 3∧-year-old world record...
...Last week, at Marblehead, Mass., a fourth U.S. candidate slid down the ways on the midnight tide. In what was probably the biggest crowd ever to attend a shore-bound yachting function, 1,200 sailors packed into M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium to hear about Nefertiti, a radical 12-meter yacht designed by self-taught Naval Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal for 12-meter yachts. Like...
Crime was indeed up in the city for the first quarter of 1962, but most of the increase could be accounted for by a rash of parking-meter hoists and car boosts (filching from unlocked cars). And as a matter of fact, "street crimes"-which include purse snatches-actually dropped in April. "Contrary to recent newspaper accounts, San Francisco is not experiencing a crime wave," reported a grand jury flatly, as it took official notice of the whipped-up wave-a circulation-grabbing stunt that is as old as journalism itself. As for San Francisco's papers, they barely...