Word: trackmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does that so well that he now holds five world records (from 1,500 to 5,000 meters). In sports-happy Hungary, excitement boils any time he shucks his sweat pants and gets to work, for Sandor is the star of a small, gaunt band of five trackmen* whom Hungarians confidently expect to win them third place in the 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia...
Many experts outside Hungary concede that Sandor & Co., given a little help from some less talented trackmen, will not disappoint their countrymen: Hungary may be a small onion in the international goulash of sport, but it is a country with a determination to win. Explains ex-Sprinter Jozsef Sir (pronounced sheer), commissar of the track and field section of the sports council of the Ministry of Culture: "We train. That is our secret...
...American trackmen teamed up with their New Zealand rivals in Auckland to set a spate of records. Californian Parry O'Brien put the shot 58 ft. 4 in., and heaved the discus 159 ft. 3 in., for New Zealand marks. Helped by a following wind, Texan Bobby Morrow ran off a world-record-tying loo-yd. dash (09.3 sec.). New Zealander Murray Halberg also contributed a local record with an impressive 4:02.2 mile ¶Proving just how far professional football had progressed as a crowd pleaser, President Jack Mara of the New York Giants calmly turned down...
Whenever they start worrying about the strong Iron Curtain track teams that threaten to run off with the next Olympics, some Western trackmen suddenly remember that foot racing is, after all, a sport for amateurs. Those Iron Curtain athletes are state-supported pros, runs the complaint. They have no financial worries, and they train all the time. How can the West compete with a racket like that...
...Union Pacific Railroad, startled the austere board by showing up for a meeting with a psychology textbook under his arm. After he graduated from Yale (B.A., '13), he went to work for the Union Pacific in the offices and yards. Within two years he highballed past his fellow trackmen to become a vice president...