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...appendicitis attack. Rushed to a hospital, he was fed intravenously, packed in ice. Roth refused medication: "If it has to come out, O.K.," he said, "but if it doesn't, I don't want to be punchy for the race." Then he went out and chopped 3.1 sec. off his own world record...
...women's 400-meter individual medley, and Cathy Ferguson, 16, set a new world record in the 100-meter backstroke. Of course, there was nothing anyone could do to stop Australia's ageless Dawn Fraser, 27, from winning the 100-meter freestyle in a record 59.4 sec. But Sharon Stouder, only 15, came within .4 sec. (becoming the first U.S. girl ever to crack 1 min.), then won the 100-meter butterfly and helped her teammates beat the world's record for the 400-meter freestyle relay...
...have to swim through. But the real thrill is winning-and winning big." Last week Don was looking for all the thrills he could find. In the 100-meter freestyle he left France's World Record Holder Alain Gottvallès far behind to set a 53.4-sec. Olympic record. "I had nothing left at the finish," he confided afterward. "Not a drop, not a single breath...
...York or American exchanges. Its more than $2 billion volume is still small compared with the regular exchanges (about 3% of the Big Board's), but the third market is growing steadily-and has so far escaped nearly all the regulations imposed on the exchanges. Funston wants the SEC, which has been holding hearings on the third market, to compel it to play by roughly the same rules as the others...
Third market dealers insist that the competition they give the exchanges is healthy, and the SEC seems to agree. In its Special Stock Market Study Report last year, the SEC found that "the third market has been, on balance, beneficial to investors and the public interest." Nonetheless, the Government has plans to bring the market under closer scrutiny-though not as close as the exchange would like. By year's end, the SEC is expected to impose new rules requiring that third market firms identify the stocks in which they deal and make quarterly reports on all their...