Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow-motion freaks do not fare any better. Japan's Kon Ichikawa, who all by himself made a better Olympics film about the 1964 Tokyo Games, uses slow motion to record the 100-meter dash. Although it is fascinating to see some of the world's fastest humans running in place for a few minutes, it is finally frustrating not to see the essence of their thing, which is a blur. Arthur Penn has some extremely pretty pictures of pole vaulters slowly soaring, but when he cuts a lot of vaults together to form a sort of aerial...
...Canadian Henley held July 28 on St. Catherine's Lake in Ontario, the Cliffies covered the 1000 meter course in near record time, leading the competition to an easy victory...
...dash; five weeks later, in Bakersfield, he became the first runner in 13 years to win both the 100 and the 220 in an A.A.U. championship. Last week in Turin, Italy, he swept past the best of Italian competitors to a first-place finish in the 200-meter race...
...rapidly emerging as the man most likely to restore the U.S. to international dominance in the sprints. This week he faces the man to beat in that department. At a Soviet-American meet in Minsk, Williams runs against Russian Valery Borzov, who captured the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint at the Munich Olympics last year and thus won recognition as "the world's fastest human...
Williams adopted Tommie Smith, another long-legged, long-striding master of the 100-and 200-meter events, as his idol. "He had a distinctive high knee style," Williams explains, "and I worked on developing a knee lift. If I ran to catch a bus, I ran high knee lifts. That was all Tommie Smith's influence...