Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 14--President Eisenhower's inquiry panel, still plugging against odds for settlement of the marathon steel strike, today was granted an added three days for handing its report to the White House...
...Athlete's heart" is an unfortunate term that should be discarded, because it indicates a diseased state that does not exist, said New York University's Dr. Louis F. Bishop. Also: changes in athletes' pulse rates are easy to measure but hard to evaluate, e.g., marathon runners' pulses are slower than sprinters'. In general, the pulse returns to normal more quickly after exercise in an individual who is physically...
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...