Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find running room. Spikes slice close to bare shanks in the opening sprint for the pole; elbows have a habit of splaying wide when the pack gangs up on a turn. And when the pack contains men like Hungary's crack Istvan Rozsavolgyi, holder of three world records for outdoor middle-distance running, the problem is even more complicated. For while Ron runs to win and only as fast as he has to, Rozsy runs against the clock. He knows from wind-broken experience that setting a new record for the indoor mile may be the only...
...happened so fast that Ron ran the last quarter in 56.4, was clocked for the mile in 4:03.7, just one-tenth second short of the indoor record. It was obvious that even if the Hungarian gets around to running up another record for himself, The Delany will probably be pounding home in front of that race...
Australia's national swimming championships last week wound up a season that has left the record books in tatters. In seven weeks of competition, from the big New South Wales state meet to the nationals in Melbourne, Aussie youngsters had splashed to 31 new world marks. The incredible Konrads kids-Ilsa, 13, and John, 15 (TIME, Jan. 20)-accounted for 16 all by themselves. Awed Americans are beginning to wonder whether down-under champions are just born swimming in full career...
...Talbot, everything worked. He convinced Ilsa Konrads that she would win the 880-yd. title, and though she was suffering from such a bad cold that every breath caused pain in her chest, she won in record time (10:16.2). He told John just how fast to swim each lap of both the 440 and the 1650, and saw John follow orders so closely that the youngster broke six world records on the way to winning both races. In the 1,650-yd. swim, John kicked along so well that he cracked four records before he finished the grind...
...Merck & Co.'s fourth quarter net increased from 45? to 51? a share, and profits for the whole year advanced 14%. CJ Reynolds Metals Co. brought in 88? a share in the fourth quarter v. 85? in 1956, but profits for the year dropped 8% in spite of record sales...