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Worlds to Conquer. At his two big meets against the U.S.. Yamanaka warmed up by coming within .1 sec. of matching Aussie John Konrads' world record (2:02.2) for the 200 meters. A bare two hours later, he tackled the marathon distance of 1,500 meters, set a Japanese record of 17:47.5 ("I struggled along trying to overcome weariness by thinking of the food I love"). Next, thrashing home on the last lap with furious half-strokes ("They give me speed but they really wind me"), Yamanaka lopped 2.4 sec. off Konrads' mark...
Before and during the ten long weeks of marathon bargaining, President Eisenhower had warned both management and labor not to make an inflationary settlement, i.e., one in which wage increases would be so big that they would force price increases. To prove how serious he felt about the dangers of inflation, Ike last week vetoed a housing bill because he considered it inflationary. His words-and a torrent of warnings from every quarter-had awakened the nation to the perils of new inflation. As it met with labor last week in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, steel management was keenly...
...marathon TV interviews (five hours, from 10:30 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.), Castro resumed his attacks on the U.S., saying, "International interests want to crush the Cuban revolution, which is an example for the rest of Latin America." He waved the specter of class war, warning that he has summoned half a million peasants "with their machetes" to Havana on July 26. The picture that came off the screen was that of a fanatic heading for a leftist dictatorship...
...Dainty June, life without Mother was dismal. An awkward adolescent, she had grown out of her job as a child hoofer. Hungry, she split with her husband, signed on as a marathon dancer near Boston. Just as the stage had been June's nursery, the marathon became her college, and she gives an effective description of one of the weirdest fads of the '20s and '30s. Dredged from the bottom of the Depression, the dancers were "horses" rather than humans, swung on their feet for days, weeks and months-with an eleven-minute break every hour...
...something more than another collection of meaningless statuary? The obvious answer was to pick a few deserving winners carefully and present the prizes on a tasteful show. But this time television avoided the obvious. In a season dominated by dull shows, the three-city, 42-Emmy marathon packaged for the academy by NBC last week managed to stand out as one of the worst...