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...flown to the U.S., a blue-eyed pixy named Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth, black belly. For 20 minutes, horse...
...racing room. Fifty yards from the tape, he was half a pace back. Twenty-five yards to go, and he was still behind. But the gap was smaller now. By the time they passed the tape, Chris Chataway, the man who always finishes second, was first by a stride. His time: 13:51.6, a new world's record...
...Western nations. The Commonwealth ministers agreed. While other countries watched and waited, Britain prospered under a Tory government and convertibility seemed to be coming steadily closer. Just three months ago, there appeared to be only a few hurdles left, and Britain seemed in shape to take them in stride. But last week, as the top fiscal officials of 57 countries of the free world (with one Communist interloper: Czechoslovakia) gathered in Washington for the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Rab Butler backtracked. The time for convertibility, he said...
...Brown (5 ft. 9 in., 183 Ibs.) barreled out of his left-tackle position and recovered a California fumble. From his own 13-yard line, lean Gene Calame took off in the option play. Circling behind the quarterback. Halfback Buddy Leake caught Calame's lateral without hitching his stride, raced a couple of steps and whipped a long forward pass downfield. On the Sooner 43, End Max Boydston took the ball easily over his shoulder. A diving defensive back just missed his heels. Running as if he had eyes in the back of his head, Boydston snaked away from...
Spectacular as the mile was, for sheer drama the 26-mile marathon dominated the games. Just 20 minutes after Bannister's victory, England's Jim Peters staggered into the stadium far ahead of the long-distance pack. Suddenly his stride fell apart into an awful, staggering dance. He dropped to his knees and began to crawl up the track...