Word: recording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Running after Roscoe. Fortnight ago at the Modesto. Calif, relays, Morrow, Norton and Woodhouse trailed as chunky (5 ft. 9 in., 154 Ibs.) University of Oregon sophomore Roscoe Cook came from nowhere to pass them all and equal the world record. Cook, 20, had stage fright before the race. "I was scared," he admits. "I had to run against these greats. I just didn't think I was the material to be in the same category with those guys, but I remembered what the coach told me: 'Keep your jaw loose, relax, and drive when you see that...
...water." For Veteran Pilot Conrad, it had been a long time between sips of water. Carrying only a supply of coffee and tea, he had flown an incredible 7,683 miles nonstop from Casablanca in a 250-h.p., single-engined aircraft, beating by some 700 miles the previous distance record for light planes. His time...
...good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break a record," he said after landing. "I finally decided to do it officially." He flew on to San Francisco, got an enthusiastic welcome from the two youngest of his ten children Francesco, 9 and Ann, 7. Said son Terry, 16: "He's the type of person who will just keep flying...
...explosions-is by measuring the long waves that travel along the earth's surface instead of striking deep into its interior. Drawback to this method is that even such minor disturbances as a storm at sea set up shorter surface waves (microseisms) that obscure or blot out the record. The Lamont improvement is an ingenious filtering device that separates earthquake waves from local confusion...
Justifying the purchasing agents' optimism, the economy touched new high ground. Freight carloadings jumped nearly 30% over the same week last year, running ahead of 1957 for the first time this year. The dollar volume of new construction rose in May to $4.6 billion, an alltime record for the month...