Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...women's 100 meters, Tennessee's willowy Wilma Rudolph, 20, tied the Olympic and world record of 11.3 in early heats, then zoomed away from the field in the finals to finish in n sec. flat (a time invalidated for a world record by a tail wind). First U.S. girl to win the event since 1936, Wilma made another conquest in Rome: she wandered about Olympic Village hand-in-hand with U.S. Sprinter Ray Norton, who was having his troubles on the track...
...ever, with a trio headed by Ray Norton. For another. Hary had always been regarded with some suspicion. Rivals had long claimed that tolerant European starters let him beat the gun. When Hary knocked .1 sec. off the world record this summer with a time of 10 sec. flat, skeptical U.S. and European coaches alike freely predicted that he would certainly be run into the ground in Rome...
...tour Cape Cod in late September. The artist is a burly fellow (Ezra Reuben Baker), recognizably aesthetic in paint-smeared dungarees, scurrilous red sweater and combat boots. He trundles a cart filled with paint buckets along a dock, then throws an enormous sheet of wallboard down on a mud flat ten feet below...
...almost no increase over the second quarter. With all the recent talk of recession, they had begun to fear that expenditures for plant and equipment might fall off later in the year. But this week, to their relief, new figures showed that expenditures are likely to run at a flat $37 billion, only a fraction below what had been earlier expected. Department-store sales also continued strong, running 4% ahead of last year for the last reported week, 2% ahead for the year...
...bulk of the charter flight boom reflects the growing U.S. passion for seeing new places. The airlines like charter flights because they keep equipment in use during the off season. The flights entail less bother and bookkeeping than regular flights, since an entire plane is chartered for a flat rate (e.g., $22,000 for a DC-7C seating 79) to a group that collects the money from its members, handles the tickets and seating. For the economy-minded traveler, charter flights offer the equivalent of first-class service (meals include hors d'oeuvres, filet mignon, hard liquor, wine...