Word: meters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will learn about the schools that produce the French Establishment, quirks of the Code Civil, the ratio of policemen per capita (one for every 347 people) and the 1949 decree that governs a concierge's weekly cleaning of a courtyard, "devoting one minute and a half per square meter for the first forty meters and thirty seconds per square meter for the remaining surface...
...often been a means to lesser ends. "Who gets wealth that puts not from the shore?" asked Poet Samuel Daniel in England's expansive 16th century. "Danger hath honor; great designs their fame/Glory doth follow, courage goes before." Daniel's poem was the mercantile ethic frozen in meter. In that spirit, the conquistadors braved terra incognita to bleed Montezuma of his gold; the slave traders kidnaped tribesmen from Africa. In that spirit empires were created-and the conflicts of colonialism that still haunt the world. The motives for these enterprises were not necessarily ignoble. Few men take risks...
...Spitz should have snapped out of it. At last week's Santa Clara International Invitational Meet, the Indiana University freshman entered three events and tied records in each of them: 1) his own world mark of 55.6 sec. in the 100-meter butterfly; 2) the American record in the 100-meter freestyle (52.6 sec.); 3) Don Schollander's world mark in the 200-meter freestyle (1 min. 54.3 sec.). Last spring, Spitz's sweep of three events led Indiana to the N.C.A.A. championship by 121 points. His performances since Mexico City have dispelled any doubt that...
...under the two-year-old world mark. The first black trackman in the history of Texas A. & M., Mills whipped the Olympics' top two quarter-milers -Lee Evans and Larry James. Villanova's Marty Liquori, who finished dead last in the 1,500-meter finals in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, defeated World Record Holder Jim Ryun after nine tries in the mile...
...could very well go in as the favorite," says tow-man Dave Tyler, "just on the basis of faster times. But the Henley distance (1 3/4 miles) is a half-mile longer than the 2,000 meter course we row in America, and the heavier boats might have a stamina advantage over the fiinal stretch...