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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police across the country have gratefully adopted Mace, a chemical stun gas in a pressurized can, as a means of coping with rioters and unruly suspects. Used as recommended (from at least 3 ft. away, in 1-sec. bursts), it causes temporary loss of vision and inability to move-effects far less drastic than those of a club or a .38-cal. bullet...
...followed that up with a smashing five-length victory in last week's $32,300 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Ken tucky. With Jockey Milo Valenzuela holding on for dear life, Forward Pass led every step of the way, sped H miles in 1 min. 47 4/5 sec.-just 2/5 sec. off the Keeneland track record...
Regan's blend of Irish charm and office skill made him a natural for special assignments. In 1962, after the company discovered that some of its salesmen were misrepresenting a small cigarette-filter company in order to sell its stock, Regan was dispatched to an SEC public hearing in Washington to explain. Said he simply: "Let's face it. This is one in which we goofed." He went on to explain that Merrill Lynch had already fined the salesmen involved and repaid $116,000 in losses suffered by customers. In recent years, Regan has also been...
...clear two weeks ago when the nation's top collegiate swimmers, led by U.C.L.A.'s Zac Zorn and Mike Burton, rewrote the record book at the N.C.A.A. indoor championships in Hanover, N.H.- smashing no fewer than twelve U.S. and N.C.A.A. marks Zorn clocked a phenomenal 45.3 sec in the 100-yd. freestyle, and Burton became the first man ever to crack 16 mm. in the 1,650-yd. freestyle. Yet even those performances may pale this week when the A.A.U. short-course championships get under way in Greenville N.C., and a teen-ager from Santa Clara' Calif...
Over the past two years, Spitz has won 22 national and international titles, broken ten world records and 28 U.S. marks. He is the current world record holder in both the 100-meter butterfly (55.7 sec.) and the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 5.7 sec.), needs only to pare a total of seven seconds off his best times to set records in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle and the 200-meter individual medley (breast stroke, backstroke and crawl). At last year's Pan American games in Winnipeg, he won five gold medals. The only...