Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scandinavians just naturally throw a javelin farther than anybody else. Americans traditionally make the best shotputters, and the high jump has been a Russian specialty ever since Valery Brumel appeared on the scene. Milers come from everywhere. The last four world record holders, in order, have been a Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare...
...quarterback-mostly because, as one A.F.L. coach admits, "it takes time to develop a topnotch passer." Nine National League quarterbacks have completed better than 50% of their passes this season-against only three for the American League. But what does it matter how well a man can throw a ball if he can't get out of bed? Last week no fewer than five of the N.F.L.'s first-string quarterbacks were nursing injuries, and Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, who damaged a knee against the Chicago Bears, was lost for the rest of the season. The Unitas...
Died. Joseph Ignatius Breen, 75, longtime (1934-54) arbiter of Hollywood's movie morals, who was hired by the Hays (later Johnston) Office to boss the industry's keep-it-clean Production Code, started out by telling producers, "I'm going to throw a helluva lot of your celluloid in the ashcan," which he did while offering such "suggestions" as "Eliminate the action of Spit actually expectorating," only once faced open revolt-when Howard Hughes in 1954 released The French Line without a Seal of Approval, thus earning a $25,000 fine; of a stroke; in West...
...valid curiosity about the further adventures of Joe Lampton, whose future was contained in his past. Lured to this steamy sequel, bombarded with reminders of its predecessor, audiences soon know exactly where they are-leagues away from the microcosmic Warley, Yorkshire, and no more than a stone's throw from Peyton Place...
...meet was Harvard's from the beginning. The Crimson coached by Ed Stowell in the absence of ailing head coach William McCurdy, won every event but the 25 lb, throw and the 1000 yard...