Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Ralph Metcalfe, 68, four-term black Congressman from Chicago's South Side and former champion sprinter who won a 1936 Olympic gold medal with Jesse Owens in the 400-meter relay; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A protege of Mayor Richard Daley's, Metcalfe broke with his mentor in 1972 after complaining of police brutality toward Chicago's blacks, but he continued to win re-election handily without machine support...
Another home-grown Los Angeles star, Lopes was perhaps closest to Gilliam of all the Dodgers. In Game 1, he played with a vengeance. For all the intricate meshing of team play in baseball -the lightning ballet of the double play, the slick-quick coordination of a relay from the outfield-the sport remains a game of individual skills. Lopes produced the first of a string of great individual performances in this 75th World Series. He crashed two home runs into the bleachers in left center, the last a screamer that was still on the rise when it rifled into...
...What Princeton freestyler beat Bobby Hackett off the blocks in the last leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay and eventually won the Easterns for the Tigers last year...
Then came Montreal. A powerful East German team?older, bigger, stronger, better trained?swamped all comers, winning eleven of 13 events. U.S. swimmers managed to take only a single gold medal, the 400-meter freestyle relay. The defeat was so total, the humiliation so painful, that coaches hinted darkly of the victors' using illegal drugs during training, and some swimmers made unsportsmanlike cracks about the heavily muscled East German women...
Such hyperbole aside, microwaves are indeed ubiquitous. Part of what physicists call the electromagnetic spectrum, they lie somewhere between conventional radio waves and infrared (heat) radiation in frequency and wave length. First widely used in radar during World War II, they are now generated by everything from telephone relay systems and television stations to garage door openers, burglar alarms, emergency highway call boxes, diathermy machines and, of course, the kitchen "radar" range...