Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only warming up. Last week, Clarke broke the 28-min. barrier for the 10,000 meter run (about 6¼ miles). Lapping the other runners at Oslo's Bislet Stadium, he clocked in at 27 min. 39.4 sec., slicing 34.6 sec. off the record he set four weeks ago. On the way to the 10,000 meter mark, he established a new world record of 26 min. 47 sec. at the six-mile mark as well...
...only piece I didn't like, although it was well-written, was Claude Weaver's "Martin Luther King at Oslo." When Weaver writes "the white community is bursting with paternal advice for its little brown brothers," he does exactly what he told me not to do: he looks at someone's skin and sees the big bad wolf. He does what Sheila Rush warned against and again demonstrates the danger that Negro Affairs faces. By lumping the "white community," even for a single sentence, Weaver begins the debilitating process of over-simplification. Moreover, his denigration of King's power sounds...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Highlights of the Sebring Grand Prix of Endurance from Florida and the Holmenkollen International Ski Jumping Championships from Oslo...
...Norway's Conservative Party (1926-34, 1945-54), and last president of the powerless League of Nations (1939-46), who in 1944 horrified the League by suggesting that small nations should not be accorded equal vote with great powers in international organizations; after a long illness; in Oslo...
...Today I come to Oslo as a trustee, inspired, and with renewed dedication to humanity. I think Alfred Nobel would know what I mean when I say that I accept this award in the spirit of a curator of some precious heirloom which he holds in trust for its true owner-all those to whom beauty is truth and truth, beauty-and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold...