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University physicists are sitting up on a grim "death watch" this morning at the Everett St. Cyclotron Lab after starting up the balky 745-ton machine for a non-stop, three week marathon...
...commercial time remains unsold. As a result, Allen's easy, oh-so-casual delivery becomes choppy and labored. Tonight's 90 minutes (plus a 15-minute local broadcast) forces him to rely on singers and special news telecasts as a respite from what is plainly a TV marathon...
...Winnie Roach Leuszler, 28, the only Canadian woman to conquer the English Channel. The other: blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 16, a 119-lb. Toronto high-school girl whose only claim to swimming fame was that she had been the first woman to finish in a marathon swim in Atlantic City in July. Neither Winnie nor Marilyn stood to get $10,000-or even $1- from the C.N.E...
...sight of English Runner Jim Peters' collapse in the last quarter-mile of the marathon at the British Empire Games (TIME, Aug. 16) moved many spectators to indignant comment. None used sharper words than the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Columnist Emmett Watson...
Spectacular as the mile was, for sheer drama the 26-mile marathon dominated the games. Just 20 minutes after Bannister's victory, England's Jim Peters staggered into the stadium far ahead of the long-distance pack. Suddenly his stride fell apart into an awful, staggering dance. He dropped to his knees and began to crawl up the track...