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Jampacked in Oslo's Bislett Stadium, 33,000 track fans one night last week howled for Australian Runner Herb Elliott to break his own world's record for 1,500 meters. Elliott was obviously out to please, but he finished 1.4 sec. off the record of 3:36 that he set last month in Göteborg, Sweden. "The going was hard and good, and I have no complaints," he gasped later, "except that I may be a little tired...
Elliott had plenty of reason to be tired. His Oslo race completed the greatest sustained middle-distance performance in the history of foot racing. High spot: setting the mile record at Dublin last month in the startling time of 3:54.5. He has shown endurance as remarkable as his speed: the day after he set his 1,500-meter record, he breezed through a mile in 3:58. In all, Elliott broke four minutes for the mile in every one of his ten races this year. Track experts foresee that if he keeps his determination, the lean...
Where are the lissome, patrician blondes of yesteryear? From the piney suburbs of Oslo, the filing cabinets of Bremerhaven and the swimming pools of Stockholm they came. They brought their marimbas, their mothers and snug bathing suits, and they headed for the place where men waited with jeweled crowns, ermine robes, cameras and public-address systems-all to the glory of the cosmetics and bathing-suit industries. They were on their fair-haired way to glory as Miss Universe-or as starlets and models...
...port along the Great Lakes' 8.300-mile shore line. Cities in the great Midwest of the U.S. will become ocean-going ports. Chicago will be linked to Calcutta, Duluth to Antwerp, Toronto to Brisbane. Detroit's Chrysler Corp. will be able to ship a Plymouth sedan to Oslo for $45 less than the cost of the rail-ocean haul through New York. Wheat will move from Fort William, Ont. to Rotterdam at a saving...
Died. Oscar Torp, 64, President of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), onetime (1951-55) Prime Minister, who disapproved Norway's traditional neutrality, influenced its decision to join NATO; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Oslo...