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Setting world records is getting to be old hat with trim young (19) Sprinter Sime. This winter he set a new mark for the indoor 100-yd. dash (0:09.5); fortnight ago he shaved the 220-yd. low-hurdle record to 0:22.2. And if his father, Aircraft Plant Guard Charles Sime, has his way, the rapid young man will be a long time slowing down. After his world-record dash last week, Dave had hardly caught his breath when he was talking on the telephone to his dad in Fair Lawn, N.J. "Next time do it faster," was Charles...
...Like a sprinter on a treadmill, U.S. industry is finding that no matter how fast it runs it cannot catch up with increasing consumer demand. Last week American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which set an industrial record for yearly spending with the $1.6 billion put into expansion in 1955, announced that it was still unable to close the gap. This year, said A. T. & T. President Cleo F. Craig, the world's biggest utility will spend a staggering $2.1 billion merely to keep from falling farther behind. With 47 million phones already in service, orders for another...
Many experts outside Hungary concede that Sandor & Co., given a little help from some less talented trackmen, will not disappoint their countrymen: Hungary may be a small onion in the international goulash of sport, but it is a country with a determination to win. Explains ex-Sprinter Jozsef Sir (pronounced sheer), commissar of the track and field section of the sports council of the Ministry of Culture: "We train. That is our secret...
Dyer became the varsity's top freestyle sprinter this year, establishing Harvard records in both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle events. In the latter event he set the mark of 50.6 in the Easterns last week at Cornell...
Dyer first showed his potential against Yale last year when he beat the Elis' great sprinter Kerry Donovan in the 50-yard freestyle. Rex Aubrey, who set the world record this year, won the event...