Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced that he was taking a year off in order to refresh himself. Says Gernreich, who championed the new attitude all along: "I feel that a woman must buy the basics from a boutique or designer, and then be able to do what she wants with scarves and chains. Women want to involve themselves with their clothes...
...another new Olympic mark by clearing 17 ft. 8½ in. in the pole vault. In the short dashes, California's Jim Hines clocked 9.9 sec. in the men's 100 meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there was Al Oerter's fourth straight discus victory and Bob Beamon's incredible long jump...
Swimming and diving were also dominated by the U.S. By week's end, three events had been held, and Americans had won all three-two of them, the men's 400-meter freestyle relay and the women's 400-meter medley relay, in world-record times. The U.S. basketball team was still unbeaten, heading for a showdown with the Soviet Union. But there are 19 sports in the 1968 Olympics-more than enough to give athletes from the rest of the world an opportunity to make their marks. And they did. Four of the best...
...histories, death certificates and related data, he can be virtually sure to find: 1) evidence tending to confirm well-established theories, and 2) something totally unexpected. That is exactly what happened to Statistician E. Cuyler Hammond when he dug into the records of 352,000 men and 440,000 women enrolled nine years ago in the American Cancer Society's long-range epidemiological study...
...expected, Hammond told a heart-disease symposium at Albany Medical College last week, the death rates after age 40 are higher for both men and women if they smoke cigarettes, if they are overweight, if they have high blood pressure, and if they don't exercise much. This holds true for deaths from both heart attacks and strokes...