Word: events
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little Norwegian fishing town of Sogne prepared for the biggest social event of its history. The local girl who made good use of her stay in the U.S., Anne-Marie ("Mia") Rasmussen, 21, and her fiance, Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of New York's Governor, seemed calmer than anyone else about their wedding. But to evade newshounds, they frequently took to the hills, abandoned Steve's telltale motorcycle for a car, fled from a restaurant right after the soup when a photographer surprised them at the table. Young Rockefeller's parents, once the employers...
...tour, London's Daily Herald cried out in alarm: THE QUEEN IS EXHAUSTED BRING HER HOME! "The truth is Her Majesty has the colly-wobbles," said the Daily Mirror. When with Gallic intuition France-Soir suggested that "Queen Elizabeth's fatigue and illness may presage a happy event," the idea was loyally denied by the Queen's press secretary as "absolute nonsense." He had not been told the news. Last week the rumors were confirmed: for the first time since 1857, when Queen Victoria bore her ninth and last child (Princess Beatrice, who died...
...great Willie Shoemaker in booting home winners (224 v. 221) and total purses ($1,863,049 v. $1,128,474). It matters little to Ussery that he has had to ride 143 more races than Shoemaker to get his total, or that he has never won a major stakes event. He is often willing to resort to lackluster hayburners to fill out an afternoon's work: "Those stiffs will win now and then...
...Japan last week, coaches from Melbourne to New Haven stared in admiration at the record of a broad-shouldered, sturdy-legged Japanese college student named Tsuyoshi Yamanaka. Not only did Yamanaka break one world's record and help break a second, but he performed brilliantly in every freestyle event from the thrashing 100 meters to the grueling 1,500 meters. Marveled Yale's Bob Kiphuth. grand old man of U.S. swimming: "Fantastic...
...that Yamanaka won away: "Next year I think I'll crack two minutes for the 200 meters, and I'll be aiming at 4:12 for the 400 meters." But the sudden emergence of Yamanaka gives swimming a triumvirate that can smash records in every freestyle event from the 200 meters up. In the 1960 Olympics at Rome, says Yale's Kiphuth happily, "the fur will...