Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olympic hammer-throwing champion and world-record holder, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 26, Czechoslovakia's husky 1956 Olympic women's discus champion, whose stadium romance led to marriage through endless festoons of Red tape: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mark. Weight: 11 Ibs. 13 oz.-just 4 Ibs. 3 oz. less than his father's hammer...
...which displays Handel's more fluid, graceful style--the finest example being the superb duet of Arsemene and Romilda. The singers carry out their tasks well; John Leonard and Vivian Thomas produce especially beautiful sounds. Robert Scher deserves special mention for his performance (in a voice which suggests the weight and power of an articulated locomotive) of a song about wine that begins, "This persuasive potable makes your thoughts more quotable...
University coaches, however, last night refused to discard their traditional faith in the need for daily meals in the Varsity Club. Football Coach John Yovicsin upheld the idea of special meals on three grounds: physiological, social, and psychological. He stressed the necessity of "getting the players down to playing weight" which he felt could not be accomplished by the normal house fare...
London, a lantern-jawed former British champ with over 20 pounds weight advantage, is regarded so lightly that odds against him have been quoted...
INDIANAPOLIS, April 27--Their heavy-weight title fight only four days off, Champion Floyd Patterson and challenger Brian London honed themselves to a fine training edge in drills yesterday...