Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elderly man's cholesterol hit its peak for his entire hospital stay when another patient called him a dirty name and threatened to start a fight. Another's hit a similar peak in a row over a card game...
...other miler would undoubtedly have been happy with a 3-min. 56.3 clocking. Not Beatty. "I'm at my best peak ever," he says, "but I hope to keep on building. I'm not restricted to being a follower or a leader. I can do a fast early pace. I can maintain sustained drive well. I have instantaneous acceleration. But I need an adrenalin shock on the last lap-somebody to make the adrenalin come." The man Beatty hopes will provide the shock he needs to smash Peter Snell's world record: Snell himself...
Sharing the Glory. In peak form for last week's A.A.U. championships, Carolyn had to share her glory with another Los Angeles teenager: her best friend, 16-year-old Sharon Finneran, who broke the listed world records in the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 31.2 sec.) and the 400-meter individual medley (5 min. 25.4 sec.). A swimming nomad, Sharon was born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., started swimming competitively in Florida, moved with her schoolteacher mother to Los Angeles last year to work with Carolyn and Coach Daland. The girls live only six blocks apart, and both attend John...
...moviegoers, starting out in 1910 as a $20-a-week stunt man and going on to become one of horse opera's Big Five (the others: Torn Mix, William S. Hart, Harry Carey, Buck Jones) in the 1920s and '30s, earning $14,500 a week at the peak of his career, and letting it slip through his fingers like quicksilver until in his last years he was almost broke; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...chapters, 200 pages, and they're four for a dollar. Now a lot of you people say you can't afford this anti-Communist literature. Now this is four for a dollar." Another time: "The Christian Crusade hotel is now open at the foot of Pikes Peak. Now it's just two for six dollars a day, and children under twelve are free.'' Finally: "How many of you weren't here yesterday? Oh-h-h-h-I'm going to have to take another offering...