Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proceeding." After that, repeated cables brought no response, and international telephone calls were invariably cut off. The Indonesians deadpanned: "Faulty communications." The Israelis finally got the message. Protested an Israeli official: "It's like sounding the starter's gun for a race, then tripping the runner...
...most responsible for Beatty's success is Coach Mihail Igloi, 53, who defected to the U.S. in 1956 from his job as head coach of the Hungarian Olympic track and field squad. Says Igloi, whose runners have broken 25 world records, 48 Hungarian records and 23 American records: "Any country I can make good runner-Japan, Germany, United States-as long as I have a free hand and somebody with a little background. If I have 30,000 bricks, I can build a small house or a beautiful palace. It depends on how I put them together...
Straining for Second Wind. Racing to beat Wimpenny and his crew to the historic flight are two other British flying clubs. Southampton University aerodynamics students have built Sumpac, which has an 80-ft. wing span and also uses a pusher propeller. Their pilot is longdistance Runner Martin Hyman, who pedals in a low-slung cockpit while reclining on his back. Sumpac, which made its maiden flight one week before Puffin, is still given to ground loops and violent yaws that its pilot is unable to control...
...began to worry," he said. "I don't want to be known as a choker." For 18 holes, he played a grim, conservative game, got only two birdies, only two bogeys, for a par 70. Par was just good enough to finish one stroke ahead of Bob Goalby, runner-up in the 1961 U.S. Open, two ahead of burly Jack Nicklaus...
...bases. In 1915 the late great Ty Cobb set the major league season record by stealing 96 bases for Detroit, and legend has it that "the Georgia Peach'' filed a knife-edge on his steel spikes to enforce his belief that "the base paths belong to the runner." The 29-year-old Wills has the same determined speed-if not the same temperament. With more than half of the season to go. he already has 34 stolen bases to his credit, seems certain to top the record for active players of 56 steals, set in 1959 by Chicago...