Word: whippets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Call for Brink's. The U.S. track team has no fewer than ten world record holders, most of whom are naturally favored to capture first place in their specialties. Lee Evans, a whippet-like San Jose State College senior, owns the 400-meter record of 44 sec., and is expected to both win that event and lead a victorious U.S. 1,600-meter relay team. After failing to qualify for the U.S. Olympic squad in the 800-meter run, Kansas' Jim Ryun finally made it in the 1,500 meters, for which he holds the record. Concentrating...
...long-range shooter, lobbing them in from 20 to 25 ft. away. Piston Coach Donnie Butcher says that two or three other Piston players are more accurate shots. What Bing developed at Washington, D.C.'s Spin-garn High School and later at Syracuse, is the whippet-like speed and agility with which he slides past, spins around, or ducks under bigger, clumsier defenders, as he drives in for close-range lay-ups and hooks. He also has fantastic spring. When he uncoils and jumps, his hands reach twelve feet into the air, right up there with Chamberlain and Boston...
...pitching, all it took to wrap up the game was a pair of runs, both of them supplied courtesy of Leftfielder Lou Brock, 28, the Cards' hardhitting (at .299) lead-off man and baseball's most artful burglar since Maury Wills decided to go straight. Lean, whippet-fast, a master of getting the jump on a pitcher, Brock has stolen no fewer than 189 bases in the last three years, and reform never entered his head last week. Four times he came to bat, four times he singled; twice he stole second, and once he went...
...classical style to a peak of powerful precision and expressive economy. In the U.S. premiere of his pas de deux for Romeo and Juliet, he evoked muted strains of Romeo's tragic ardor, but the focus was less on his characterization than on the discipline of his whippet leaps and turns and the flawless flow of his carries with Italy's graceful Carla Fracci. Marveled Nureyev: "His technique is too good to be believed...
...Company is 36-year-old Paul Taylor. At 6 ft. 1 in. and 185 lbs., he looms as a galumphing Gulliver among the light and lithe Lilliputians in his eight-member company (six women, two men). The imbalance is noticeable enough so that, contrasted with the troupe's whippet-quick movements, his flicks seem like flays, his leaps like lurches. And, for obscure reasons, he assumes a curious Howdy Doody grin that often lends a wry twist where obviously none is intended...