Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such confinement and automation of animals is possible and profitable because of a raft of new chemical discoveries. In 1948 Purdue's Dr. Andrews discovered how to put tiny pellets of stilbestrol, a synthetic female sex hormone, under the skins of cattle and sheep to make them gain weight 15% faster. Today 80% of the nation's beef cattle get stilbestrol. This helps farmers produce an estimated billion pounds more meat than they could have got for the same amount of feed without stilbestrol...
...school of "New Realism" (TIME, Oct. 13), which stresses objects and description rather than people and motivation. Winner Claude Ollier's La Mise En Scéne offered "interminable descriptions that spare you nothing and then, without ever seeming to take sides, crush you under the weight of inhuman detail." A mining engineer's efforts to make sense out of the remote mountains of North Africa, to lint his murdered predecessor with a mortall) wounded Arab girl, may add up to a novel but not when surveyed with Ollier's eye for engineering detail. Consensus: the prize...
There were some bright spots, nonetheless. Jim Doty tossed the 35-lb. weight 55 ft., 10 1/2 in. to finish second to Army's Ed Bagdonas, and Hank Abbot took fourth in the shot put with a good 50 ft., 2 3/4 in. heave. Although Fitzgerald faltered in the mile, Fred Howard came out of nowhere on the last lap to salvage fifth place for the varsity, and pole vaulter Tom Blodgett cleared 13 feet for a third-place...
Meanwhile, in New York's Madison Square Garden, Freshman Ted Bailey impressed K. of C. Meet spectators with a third-place performance in the weight event...
Captain Joe Noble, Bob Foster and John Watkins posted the only Crimson wins, as Yale swept the other five matches. Noble, wrestling at 147--one weight lower than his normal class--easily defeated Bob Schoeneman, 4-0. Watkins, also dropping down a class to 130, took a 7-3 decision from Bob Kramer...