Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time Wilt and Ashenfelter hit the last quarter-mile, the track-wise crowd was doing more than buzzing; they had already started applauding. And for the full minute-plus of the last quarter, the handclapping grew in volume. They burst into cheers when Wilt tore into the lead at the gun lap. As he pounded into the final turn, six yards ahead of Ashenfelter, the crowd stood up in spontaneous ovation. Wilt hit the wire in 8:50.7, the fastest two-mile ever run indoors, breaking Rice's 1943 record by three-tenths of a second.* Ashenfelter...
...Wise will represent the Crimson in the jump, with John Hart and Neil Dixon in cross-country. Captain John Houser will enter the combined slalom and downhill events...
Money. The big question is who pays, and how much. Lisbon will hear a report from NATO's Three Wise Men-W. Averell Harriman of the U.S., Jean Monnet of France, Sir Edwin Plowden of Britain-who have been working secretly and late on the figures. Though most NATO partners fear they can no longer carry the defense load without serious inflationary crises at home, the Wise Men have urged Belgium and Canada to ante up more. They asked West Germany to contribute 13 billion marks; Germany said it could afford only 10; they compromised at 11 billion...
Died. Ida B. Wise Smith, 80, who joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at 17, became its national president at 52, spent most of her adult life equating evil to alcohol and fighting for prohibition; in the State Mental Health Institute, Clarinda, Iowa, where she had been a patient since 1947. Hailing the U.S. dry era as "halcyon days," she firmly believed that prohibition would eventually come back to stay. Her credo: "I love God, my country and little children. I hate the liquor traffic and abhor all vice...
Although the team did not show its best in these three events, it was in the jump that the Crimson did its poorest. With Tim Wise placing 11th, Houser 19th, Dixon 20th, and Hart, who fell on two attempts, 29th, the team finished in sixth place in this event...