Word: weight
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...lexicon of track and field, weight men are called "whales," and in this Olympic year, Parry O'Brien is the great white whale of the U.S. team-a Moby Dick whom the Russians and the rest of the athletic world would rejoice to master. In competitive terms, he is the epitome of the spirit of single-minded pursuit of perfection idealized in the Olympic creed, a loner who has consecrated his life to the task of tossing a 16-lb. ball of steel farther than anyone-including Parry O'Brien -has tossed it before. He searches for tricks...
...Just for kicks a pair of Pitt publicity men fed data on the upcoming game with Penn State into a mechanical brain-backfield speed, linemen's weight, comparative scores, even the years of tenure of each head coach. The "Type 650 Magnetic Drum Processing" machine digested the facts, hummed, clicked, calculated that each side of the equation could be evaluated by the figure 1. This, the P.R. men decided sadly, meant that the game would end in a tie. It did: Pitt 7, Penn State...
...weight of evidence is that U.S. authors have indeed changed their approach to the businessman, and that their novels reflect the changing times. Author-Critic John Chamberlain, who eight years ago wrote in FORTUNE that novelists "are not only antibusiness; they are also anti-fecundity and anti-life," now feels that "the businessman has been made much more human...
...chling family is to the steel-rich Saar what the Fords are to Dearborn, Mich. Longtime producers of one-third of the Saar's steel, the Röchlings hold the key to the basin's rich economy, the deciding weight in the industrial balance of power between France and Germany. Both in 1919 and 1946, France took over the Röchling empire in an effort to swallow the Saar. Just 20 months ago Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay promised the French Senate, "The Röchlings will never return to the Saar." But six months after...
Last Tuesday Bob Hoffman, coach of the United States weightlifting team, accused the five man Olympic jury of being pro-Russian and anti-American. He also claimed the Russians cheated in boxing, wrestling, and weight-lifting by holding back their entry lists until they saw where other teams were entering their strongest men. And just yesterday morning, reports filtered out of Australia to the effect that the Americans won the hammer throw through the use of "psychological warfare...