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...structure, which echoes the silhouette of the Rockies, some began feeling dizzy and nauseated. The likely culprits: a plunging 100-ft. atrium and walls slanted at odd angles. "If you have walls tilting toward or away from you, that disrupts people's balance," says University of Colorado architecture professor Taisto Makela. Of the 11 students he recently took to the museum, three felt dizzy...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...
When curly-haired, 29-year-old Taisto Maki landed in the U. S. two months ago, he was considered the world's distance-running nonpareil. Five times last summer, in his native Finland, he had broken world's records at distances ranging from two miles to 10,000 meters (a little over six miles)-"unbreakable" marks once held by his idol, coach and traveling companion, famed Paavo Nurmi...
...before 16,000 spectators; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Hailed as America's No. 1 distance runner, Notre Darner Rice, who also set a new world's indoor record for three miles (13:55.9) three weeks ago, will be matched next fortnight against famed Finn Taisto Maki, holder of the world's outdoor records for two miles (8:53.2) and three miles...
...restlessness. Americans last week formed committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...