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...Frankly, I don't understand all the fuss about this meet," said New Zealand's Peter Snell, 24, on the eve of the California Relays at Modesto, Calif. Lounging beside a motel pool, arm in arm with his bride of two weeks, the world's fastest miler (3 min. 54.4 sec.) hardly looked like a man facing the sternest test of his career. He dismissed his chief competitor, the U.S.'s Jim Beatty, a 3-min. 56.3-sec. miler, with a scornful shrug: "This Beatty doesn't hold any decent record at all." He snorted...
...Modesto track was lightning-fast as the runners took their marks. Rangy (5 ft. 10 ½in., 171 Ibs.) Peter Snell, relaxed and smiling, was in lane No. 1; little (5 ft. 51 in., 128 Ibs.) Jim Beatty, tense and drawn, was in lane No. 2. The others were strung out across the track. Bang! At the gun, California's George Jessup pounced in front. Beatty was second, Weisiger third, Grelle fourth, Snell a distant sixth. Nobody expected Jessup to be around for long. Sure enough, midway through the second lap, Beatty leaped into the lead...
...since done most to popularize wine in the U.S. is Ernest Gallo, 52, president of the E. & J. Gallo Winery Corp. in Modesto. Until recently, United Vintners, run by Gallo's rival Louis Petri, was the biggest producer of cheap wines in the nation, but Gallo has been coming up fast and this year he hopes to peddle 40 million gallons to make himself undisputed top bottle in the business. His methods shock the traditional winemakers. His stainless-steel vats and presses are by far the most technologically advanced in the world ("You won't find a stick...
...profaned the sanctity and degraded the dignity of the House," suspended him for 15 months. Delighted by his victory, Garcia used the occasion to push through a toothless anti-graft bill. But there were others who questioned Garcia's good intentions. Said loyal Nacionalista Arturo Modesto Tolentino: "When relatives of a President are able to construct mansions overnight after that President comes to power, can we prevent suspicion on the part of the people that such sudden opulence has been acquired through that President? The effect is the weakening of public faith in that President himself, and nobody...
...mile was billed as the biggest track event of the season, a duel at Modesto, Calif, between Australia's Herb Elliott, the best in the world, and lanky Dyrol Burleson, the best in the U.S. But five minutes before starting time Elliott withdrew because of a strained knee tendon, and suddenly Burleson was left with no one to whip but a bunch of also-rans, including a distance runner named Jim Beatty, 25, who felt so out of place in the event that he frankly said: "I'm no miler...