Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marathon. Eight years later, smartly turned out in his favorite civilian attire-the morning coat and striped pants of the Western diplomat-he stood before the Turkish National Assembly (which he created), in the capital at Ankara (which he created), and for six full days told in the Turkish language (which he purified and revised) the full story of what he had done. He began...
...merits and with prejudice" (i.e., the Government cannot reopen the case, although it can appeal Judge Medina's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court). There was no proof whatever, said Medina, of any conspiracy, and therefore "the monopoly charges fall of their own weight." In all, the marathon trial had cost the bankers at least $4,000,000, and some estimates ran as high as $7,500,000. How much it cost taxpayers, nobody knew...
...Chiswick, England, wiry (128 Ibs.) Jim Peters, 34, ran the fastest time ever recorded for the marathon distance of 26 miles, 385 yards. Peters covered the course in 2:18:40.2, nearly eleven seconds faster than the best previous time set by Japan's Keizo Yamada at the Boston Marathon last April...
Unless Judge Medina grants pending defense motions to dismiss the charges, the defense may take still another couple of years to present its case in the marathon trial. "Thus," speculated the New York Times last week, "the life expectancy of the judge, who in this case has already spent five years in pre-trial and trial proceedings, becomes another complicating factor in antitrust jurisprudence...
...Rene's escapades form the main plot. They take her on a quick whirl through reform school, a marathon party with some furloughing G.I.s, a brush with genteel do-gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers...