Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Double Vials. One way to quiet them down is freeze-drying. A culture of bacteria is set to growing in a nutrient broth...
...challenge at Australia's confident women swimmers last week in the pretty form of five frolicking California teenagers. Gamboling around Indianapolis' huge Broad Ripple Pool like schoolgirls at summer camp, the youthful quintet laughingly struck kooky, cross-eyed poses for photographers, completely captivated the capacity crowd, and set A.A.U. officials rewriting the record books. In just three days at the Women's A.A.U. Swimming Championships, three world and ten American records were smashed, and tarnished U.S. aquatic prestige was suddenly enhanced...
...Lynn Burke, 17, a backstroke specialist from Santa Clara Swim Club, who broke two world records on successive days: in the 200-meter backstroke, pushed by Teammate Von Saltza, Lynn hit 2 min. 33.5 sec., a full 3.6 sec. faster than the world mark set by Japan's Satoko Tanaka earlier this year; in the loo-meter backstroke, she clocked an equally astonishing time-1 min. 10.1 sec., knocking nine-tenths of a second from the world mark...
...Warner, 16, another Santa Clara star, pretty and blonde, who won the 200-meter breaststroke by 7.5 sec., set a new U.S. record...
...Temple and his girls, the path to the 1960 Olympics has been paved with hard work and Spartan self-denial. Himself a Tennessee State sprinter until he hurt his leg, Temple took over as women's track coach after earning his master's degree in 1953 and set out to make it one of the college's top teams. He scoured the South for promising sprinters, labored successfully to increase his allotment of athletic scholarships from two to ten. A mark of his progress: at Tennessee State, primarily a top-rank basketball school (national small-college champions...