Word: yd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...energetic, vastly determined woman who once ran the 220-yd. dash on her high school girls' track team, Mrs. Chandler believes that "our only hope for survival lies in women and in education and cultural exchanges.'' Her notable contributions to culture have been the saving of the Hollywood Bowl through a vigorous fund-raising campaign in 1951 and the launching of the new music center. Her detractors accuse her of ignoring better-informed musical opinion than her own and of alienating, before Solti, such talented musicians as Eduard van Beinum and Alfred Wallenstein...
...eyed disbelief. Spectators flipped the pages of month-old A.A.U. swimming handbooks and decided that they had wasted the purchase price. The pool at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium was boiling with record breakers. Before the national indoor championships ended, every American short-course mark except the 440-yd. and 1,500-meter freestyle records was suddenly out of date. Among the new champions...
Charlie Bittick 21, a member of the Olympic water polo team, whose rugged shoulders and arms, developed in one of the world's toughest games, made him the meet's only triple winner: loo-yd. and 220-yd. backstroke and 400-yd. individual medley-all in record times. Born in landlocked El Reno, Okla., Bittick moved to Long Beach, Calif, at eleven and quickly developed an abiding taste for the Pacific Ocean. A few years later he was a high school swimming star. At the University of Southern California, where he is captain of the swimming team...
...lessen the fatigue of the crew going on duty. Take-offs are scheduled for around 10 a.m. to allow for a full night's sleep. (The crewmen's physical condition is attested by the fact that they must be able to run a reasonably fast 250-yd. dash and perform five chin-ups and 33 sit-ups.) The planes carried an extra pilot on the first alert flights because flight surgeons were fearful that fatigued pilots might err fatally on delicate landings after 24 hours aloft. But tests proved that they could bear up with no serious fatigue...
...Unperturbed when an overanxious opponent jumped the gun in the women's 60-yd. dash, willowy Wilma Rudolph exploded perfectly from the starting blocks, streaked to a new world indoor record (her second in four weeks...