Word: lap
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Percentage Ploy. Last week, in Toronto on the last lap of a tour that included hearings in eight Canadian cities, the O'Leary Commission was mulling over proposals that included establishment of a tariff to keep out non-Canadian publications, subsidies and tax benefits for Canadian magazines-and doing nothing at all. The commissioners had heard much testimony in favor of the Canadian publishers' thesis, but here and there another voice was raised. Sardonically noting that as a regional publisher he had to contend with the same competition from Canada's national magazines that they complain...
...meet by shattering the cage record by 2.1 seconds. Mullin paced the field for the first three-quarters and then lost the lead to B.U.'s Art Freeman, a challenger to Mullin for the past two years. The Crimson distance man sprinted back into the lead on the gun lap and beat Freeman by ten yards...
...Howard took the lead after the second lap and sprinted home with Larry Repsher closing in on his teammate. Don Kirkland finished third on the basis of his time in another heat, and the Crimson was ahead with a commanding 24-3 lead...
...before the cameras of Jailhouse Rock, Elvis Presley produced an inguinal heave so seismic that it traveled to his upper jawbone, loosening a tooth cap that fell into his bronchial tube ($2904) During the filming of The Young Lions, Marlon Brando spilled a pot of hot tea in his lap, developed an embarrassing infection ($33.806). Spartacus cost Fireman's Fund $632,197 (against a typical premium of $70,227 on a $4,100,000 policy) when Jean Simmons had an appendectomy, Tony Curtis broke his Achilles tendon and Supergladiator Kirk Douglas was leveled by a virus maximus...
...four mainstays who swam more than once, Bob Kaufmann took a competent :22.4 first in the 50 free and an easygoing 2:14.5 in the backstroke. Captain Bill Schellstede, who helped out in the medley relay, won 200 breastroke honors by close to three quarters of a lap...