Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine," low-speed runs, ordered to quit torturing himself for science on the meteoric, eye-blackening sled trials. Explaining that Stapp was unhappy to be "grounded," an Air Force spokesman added: "He has really crowded the limit of human tolerance. We don't believe he or anyone should stretch his luck any further...
...Landy and Jim Bailey while those two Aussies ran better-than-four-minute miles last month, Ireland's Ron Delany developed a taste for speed himself. Carefully pacing himself on the fast track at Compton, Calif., the Villanova sophomore kicked past Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen in the stretch and clocked a neat 3:59 flat. He had it all timed so nicely that he pulled Nielsen past the four-minute barrier with him. Nielsen's time: 3:59.1. ¶ Bulge-upholstered Paul Anderson, the 325-lb. strongman from Toccoa, Ga., played around with the big bar bell...
HIGH-SPEED TURNPIKES will stretch from New York to Chicago by November. New $27 million bridge across Delaware River opened for traffic last week, connecting New Jersey Turnpike with Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes, running to Indiana state line. The 160-mile Indiana Turnpike to Chicago will be completed this fall. Toll cost for 825-mile New York to Chicago trip: about...
Keeping a date with the law, Manhattan Gambler Frank Costello, 65, turned himself over to a U.S. marshal to start serving a five-year stretch for evading $28,532 in federal income taxes, was sent off to a detention jail to await his denaturalization trial next month...
...Kentucky Derby Winner Needles was closing fast down the short stretch of Maryland's Pimlico race track, but Calumet Farm's Fabius had enough left to hold off the favorite. When the furlongs faded out, Fabius was winner of the $132,800 Preakness by a length and three-quarters...