Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says much about why there was a women's convention at all. She wants a woman's marathon at the Olympics, "to let everybody know that women are extremely capable of running 26 miles." But the International Olympic Committee recently turned down a proposal for even a 3,000-meter (roughly two miles) women's race. The distance, presumably, is deemed too exhausting for the "weaker...
...strategy. But most of the book is for popular consumption, so the technical details are played down. Instead, Burchett emphasizes the role the Vietnamese people played in supporting the guerrilla troops, the popular uprisings, the lies to Saigon authorities. Villages developed their own home-made weapons, like the two-meter catapult made of ordinary rubber bands that could silently toss grenades into a nearby fort...
Walsh was encouraged by several surprises. Peri Ozkum prevented an Eagle sweep in the diving with a second in the one-meter diving, and Sharon Beckman kicked past a B.C. competitor in the final leg of the 200 butterfly for a second place finish...
...newly launched vehicle for Heyerdahl's latest voyage is the Tigris, an 18-meter-long (59 ft.) craft constructed from 30 metric tons (33 tons) of reeds gathered from the swamps of southern Iraq; its design is based on drawings found on ancient Sumerian clay tablets. Iraqi workmen first tied the reeds together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with...
...yards in the first ten games, and is a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone. When the offense bogs down, there is the estimable leg of Kicker Russell Erxleben to put three points on the scoreboard. Erxleben...