Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shock. I had never seen Westerners before, or Negroes or television or Coca-Cola or eyes different from mine." Everything was so new and strange, in fact, that the prospect of running against Caucasian girls embarrassed her. She finished last in her qualifying heat in the 80-meter hurdles...
...when the State Department sent him to Taiwan to coach the Nationalist Chinese team for the Asian Games. Through Reel's intercession, the Taiwanese government agreed to send Chi to the U.S. to train in 1963. Five years later, she finished third in the 80-meter hurdles in Mexico City, thus becoming the only Asian woman to win a medal in an Olympic track event that year. "They had a parade for me in Taiwan every day for over a month," she says. "It was so wonderful. I didn't even mind the firecrackers...
Building a better 12-meter racing yacht for the America's Cup is a bit like trying to reshape Raquel Welch. A naval architect can trim her here, pad her there, but what counts in the end is how well all the parts move together. Last week, after years of designing and testing, the three U.S. contenders for the 1970 America's Cup showed their shapes in public in a five-day series of trial races. Snub-nosed and broad-beamed, none would win a yachting beauty contest. Yet once they were under sail, all their parts seemed...
...bearing on which of the three slender sloops will be selected to defend the cup for the U.S. That will be decided in the final trials off Newport, R.I., beginning Aug. 18. Nonetheless, the races afforded yachting fans their first look at the sleek new fleet of U.S. 12-meters. The differences are subtle, for under the restrictive and complex formula for the 12-meter class,breakthroughs are carefully measured in inches and ounces. The U.S. boats: VALIANT is the early favorite for the simple reason that her designer, Olin Stephens, has already created three 12-meter cup winners-Columbia...
...Worcester' Penn never had that lead either year. Last month, with Harvard rowing at a 36 through the body of the race, Penn jumped as high as 48 in an attempt to close the margin, and never succeeded. Harvard won, without question, by the 1500-meter mark in each case...