Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the girls would have left Tarzan gasping in their wake. Debbie Meyer, 15, the snub-nosed aquabelle from Sacramento, Calif., shattered world records in the 400-meter freestyle (4 min. 26.7 sec.) and 800-meter freestyle (9 min. 17.8 sec.), led Arden Hills Swim Club to another record (8 min. 46.2 sec.) in the 800-meter freestyle relay...
...Africa. "I don't know much about politics," she said quietly, "but I am disappointed the Olympic committee allowed politics to enter sports." Then she showed the world what it will miss in October by breaking the listed world records in the 100-meter backstroke (1 min. 6.9 sec.) and 200-meter backstroke (2 min. 24.3 sec...
...records fall so fast. Last year no fewer than 37 world marks were broken, while only 16 track records were improved. In ten years, two full seconds have been lopped off the 100-meter freestyle record. In track the comparable 400-meter dash mark has dropped only .7 sec...
...maddening delays in delivering stock certificates. Moreover, the Securities and Exchange Commission virtually dictated some sort of crackdown. Two weeks ago, as part of a stern warning that dealers may be violating the antifraud provisions of federal securities law if they knowingly trade shares they cannot deliver promptly, the SEC suggested that a possession-before-sale policy would be "appropriate...
Giving Up $150 Million. SEC pressure last week won a much more costly concession from Wall Street. For the first time in its 176-year history, the New York Stock Exchange proposed a reduction in its sacrosanct brokerage commissions. The cuts would apply only to orders involving more than 1,000 shares of stock. Even so, Big Board President Robert W. Haack estimated that the plan would cut U.S. brokers' total commissions about $150 million annually, or 7% of the $2.1 billion they took in last year from exchange trading. As of now, the same rates (varying with...