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...mile in history. Before a crowd of 8,000 in Helsinki's Olympic Stadium, Jim Beatty ran the mile in 3 min. 56.3 sec., best time ever recorded by an American, and just 1.9 seconds off the world record set last January by New Zealand's Peter Snell...
...leader. I can do a fast early pace. I can maintain sustained drive well. I have instantaneous acceleration. But I need an adrenalin shock on the last lap-somebody to make the adrenalin come." The man Beatty hopes will provide the shock he needs to smash Peter Snell's world record: Snell himself. "If I met Snell right now," he says, "I think it would be a very good race. I'm mentally ready for anything...
...Commander Walter Edward Whitehead, bearded pitchman for Schweppes quinine water. Among 2,000 other honors: a knighthood for Guardian Cartoonist David Low-who now becomes Sir David-creator of that enduring symbol of bumbling bureaucracy, Colonel Blimp; an Order of the British Empire for New Zealand Runner Peter Snell, world record holder in the mile, half-mile, 1,000-yd. and 500-meter races; Commanders of the Order of the British Empire for Novelist Elspeth Huxley, Poet Stephen Spender, Actor Emlyn Williams...
...build up a good shape like that." Under the watchful eyes of Coach Arthur Lydiard, Snell pursues a rigorous training program. U.S. milers concentrate on calisthenics and sprints to build up their speed for finishing bursts. Snell builds up endurance by competing in 25-mile marathons, runs 100 miles a week over New Zealand's hilly country roads, rarely runs sprints and shuns calisthenics ("They're a waste of time...
...Lydiard tries for a breakthrough in stamina," explains rival Oregon Coach Bill Bowerman. "When a runner like Snell works very hard, he reaches a point where he begins to ache in his joints. The pain is enormous. When that happens, most coaches ease off. Lydiard just keeps him working harder and harder-until he becomes insensitive to the pain." So far, Snell's masochistic training regimen has paid off: when he finished his record-breaking mile in Wanganui, he was hardly panting...