Word: meters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overtime. In Buffalo, fined $5 for illegal parking, Attorney Charles J. Grieb won a dismissal six months later when he submitted a 15-page brief complete with photographs, sketches and electronic tests proving that the meter was wrong-all at a cost...
Liquidation. In New Castle, Pa., police, looking for a parking meter that someone had uprooted, found it at the bottom of the Shenango River...
...took up his double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...
...touring U.S. all-star team was built around Backstroke Flash Frank Mc-Kinney of Indiana University, but the Japanese were waiting in Tokyo with some swimmers of their own. Freestyler Tsuyoshi ("Strong Will") Yamanaka, 20, won the 200 meters (2:02.3), the 400 meters (4:22.3), the 800 meters (9:09.7), and the 1,500 meters (17:47.5). Final score: Japan, 41; U.S., 38. At a second meet, Yamanaka lowered the 400-meter record by 2.4 sec. to 4:16.6, then anchored the 800-meter relay team as it broke its own world record by 2.9 sec. with a startling...
...loved sailing that he had literally risked death for the sport. Three years ago, after a serious heart attack while manning a dinghy in a frostbite race, Shields was beached from competition by his doctors. Yet last summer he stubbornly took the tiller of the 12-meter Columbia and, under tremendous pressure, skippered her at the start of light races in the final trials that led to her successful defense of the America's Cup with his old friend and onetime rival, Briggs Cunningham, at the helm...