Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother. Nothing could have pleased her more. Four years ago Mike's father, a onetime racing driver himself, was killed while speeding home from a racing meet. Fortnight ago Mike did consent to stand in for Donald Campbell in his try next year at the world land-speed record, but only in the event of Campbell's death. But for Mike, the perilous routine of dicing with death was over. Invited to race in the 1959 Monte Carlo rally, he snorted: "Not likely, mate. It's too darned dangerous." He had an equally wary word...
...sensation of the young indoor track season is a lanky, 17-year-old Boston University freshman named John Thomas. Unheralded and almost unnoticed as the more spectacular racing events swirled around the track, Thomas broke the world's indoor record for the high jump twice in the last three weeks. This week in the Millrose Games at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Thomas will pit his new 6 ft. 11¾ in. indoor record against Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas, who holds the U.S. outdoor record...
...shot 45 ft. with no special practice. What bothers him most is pre-jump nervousness. "The moment I fear is just standing there waiting to go." He used to cover his ears as the loudspeaker announced the jump he was about to attempt. When he broke his own record in the Knights of Columbus meet in Boston (where he first ran the hurdles -"It loosens me up"), Thomas did it during the climax of the big mile race. With all eyes on Miler Ron Delany, Thomas quietly soared to unmatched heights...
Last week Chuck Medick began tuning up at local tournaments for the National Table Tennis Championships at Inglewood, Calif, in March, where he hopes to break his own record of scoring 54 matches at table tennis' biggest event. Medick's refereeing is uncanny, although he cannot quite explain the secret: "I just do something a blind man can do well -make his ears and sense of location work for him." He is helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college...
...Switzerland, Bud Werner, 22, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., swept the international men's downhill at Lenzerheide, after winning the previous week's downhill race at Kitzbuhel. Despite driving winds on the tricky 2.4-mile slope, Werner tore downhill in 2 min. 22.7 sec. to break the course record by 24 seconds...