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...first, Crimson coach Harvey Love was loath to navigate his antique two-wheeler at high speeds among the pedestrians, cows, and cyclists while operating a stopwatch and calling through a megaphone. But soon both Love and Coolidge were regularly in the saddle. The only incident occured when Coolidge, complete in the three-piece suit and watch chain for which he was already famous, rode his machine unsteadily into a crowd of squatting picnickers...
...real issue was still not wages but the work rules set up twelve years ago by Section 2-B of steel's standard wage contract. Management demanded change because the rules foster "featherbedding and loafing." The management demand solidified union ranks, raised howls that a change would let "stopwatch pirates come into the mills and set speed-up practices." Neither side made a clear case. Steel has no record of flagrant featherbedding; as compared to the same period in 1951, U.S. Steel produced a million tons more in the first half of 1959 while cutting its work force from...
...Risk. Silky's only stubborn detractors are the early-morning dockers, the stopwatch specialists who have heard him come back from a workout wheezing like an equine asthmatic. Silky's outraged owners brush off such canards. They admit no more than that their horse is a "roarer," i.e., an animal who clears his ears, nose and throat with a sound like a bull alligator with his tail caught in a trap. They have other health problems on their minds. Each of the two owners is a cardiac case...
Early Start. Most of the visiting swimming coaches spent their spare time in Melbourne last fall trailing their hosts with notebook and stopwatch, trying to learn the Aussies' secrets. The Russians even tried an eight-course dinner-and-pumping session aboard the Soviet liner Gruzia. But the Aussies had nothing to hide. Their long months of balmy weather and seaboard beaches make waterbugs of thousands of Australians as soon as they can toddle. Once a youngster can keep his head above the surface, he can join one of 450 A.S.U. sponsored clubs, where competent coaches will teach him free...
Listening only to the tick of his incredibly accurate mental stopwatch, Sowell glided over the boards, drifting well off the pace. Courtney and the Pioneer Club's Harry Bright drove ahead, hoping to steal the race. But 2½-laps from the tape, Arnie's watch told him it was time. He floated wide on a turn, kicked downhill into his fluid-drive sprint, and the race was over. Sowell was almost 4 yds. in front of Courtney and still moving away when he finished. Time: 1:50.3, a new indoor record, two-tenths of a second faster...