Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army officer who had a reputation in Cracow as an elegant, free-spending man about town with good connections. His present fame, however, was centered on the charge that he had done in six people and had had a go at two others in an astounding murder marathon that rivaled Alec Guinness' movie Kind Hearts and Coronets. Since the trial began, authorities had received denunciations accusing Mazurkiewicz of some 50 other unsolved murders. "People are crediting me with too much," he said modestly. "I planned only eight murders. I want the record straight...
...almost ten hours Toronto's Cliff Lumsden and California's Tom Park swam shoulder to shoulder around Absecon Island (N.J.), fighting for first place in Atlantic City's 26-mile saltwater marathon. They churned to the finish line like sprinters, but as Lumsden touched out Tom Park, the fickle crowd was looking elsewhere. Just ahead of the two men, Denmark's beautiful Greta Anderson, 29, first of the women competitors (who started half an hour before the men) was struggling back into the top of her bathing suit so that she could leave the water. Patient...
...China. In Geneva the marathon talks between the U.S. and Communist China over the release of Chinese-held U.S. prisoners and "other practical matters at issue" entered their twelfth month. Principal result to date: eight of the 19 prisoners have been released...
...last year's finals, Purnell took Place to five sets before losing 5-7, 6-1, 1-6, 6-2, 7-5, in a three hour marathon match...
Last week's $166 million bond-signing marathon, to finance the first 631,000-kw. unit at Priest Rapids, climaxed a four-year tug-of-war over the quiet Columbia River valley. In 1950 Congress authorized 100% federal financing, for Priest Rapids, as recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers. But in 1952 P.U.D. Manager Glenn Smothers, Attorney Nat Washington Jr. and fellow Grant County inhabitants, who were convinced that the power project could and should be locally financed, battled public-power advocates in Congress to win legislation withdrawing Priest Rapids from the federal projects list. In rapid succession...