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Ever since New Zealand's Peter Snell stormed from behind to win the 800-meter race in the 1960 Olympics, he has dominated the middle distances like no other runner in history. He set new world records for 800 meters (1 min. 44.3 sec.), 880 yds. (1 min. 45.1 sec.), 1,000 meters (2 min. 16.6 sec.), and one mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.); he outclassed all challengers at the 1964 Olympics, won both the 800-meter and the 1,500-meter races...
Early this month at London's White City Stadium, Clarke became the first man to break the 13-min. barrier for the three-mile run. He covered one mile in 4 min. 15.4 sec., two miles in 8 min. 36.4 sec., flitted across the finish in 12 min. 52.4 sec., lowering his own month-old world record by a full 8 sec...
...only warming up. Last week, Clarke broke the 28-min. barrier for the 10,000 meter run (about 6¼ miles). Lapping the other runners at Oslo's Bislet Stadium, he clocked in at 27 min. 39.4 sec., slicing 34.6 sec. off the record he set four weeks ago. On the way to the 10,000 meter mark, he established a new world record of 26 min. 47 sec. at the six-mile mark as well...
...SEC bases its case on the point that Morgan Guaranty made its purchases largely before the Dow-Jones ticker moved the news at 10:55. But Lamont contends the news was hardly secret by that time. As Lament's lawyer argued: "A director is not required to await publication of information in one particular medium before he joins in dissemination...
Question of Timing. Last week Lamont made a spirited defense of his actions and raised the tantalizing question of just when inside information can be considered public knowledge. In a reply to the SEC, Lamont argued that the facts he had when he phoned the bank were generally available to many other investors...