Word: whippets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Empress Wolzero Menen of Ethiopia, 71, wife of Emperor Selassie, an amiable, portly matriarch who confined her interests largely to church (Coptic) and children (three) but once freed her husband from imprisonment by crashing down Abyssinia's Royal Palace gates with a whippet tank; after a long illness; in Addis Ababa...
...sizzling 9.3 sec. world record for the 100-yd. dash. Although ten men have matched his time,* no one yet has raced past Patton into the record book. But this year the old champ has a new, more dangerous challenger: San Jose State's cocky Dennis Johnson, a whippet-fast Jamaican who is undefeated in eleven straight races, and this month became the first runner in history to tie Patton's world record four times in a single season. Says Johnson: "I should break the record this summer. I'll do it the first time...
...playing safety in the National Football League requires almost as many athletic skills as winning the decathlon. Ideally, the safety man must have the speed of a sprinter to keep up with whippet-fast backs and ends as they break for passes. He must have the wit to diagnose plays in advance, the instinct to follow them as they unfold. He must have the strength and guts to hurl himself head-on at a 230-lb. fullback. And he must learn to live with the chilling reality that as the last line of defense, every time he makes a mistake...