Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...week pulled out some political stops. He called an end to the state of emergency under which South Africans have lived since Sharpeville, released thousands of political prisoners who have been held without charge. To ensure plenty of scary headlines on the eve of the referendum, Sept. 12 was set for the trial of David Pratt, the English-born farmer who shot but only lightly wounded Verwoerd in April. In the back country, Nationalist campaigners are warning voters that there will be ways to tell who voted against the republic. And Verwoerd himself has bluntly stated that he intends...
...official. "Our swimmers came here to eat them
alive."
...failing in the qualifying rounds with a weak toss of 208 ft. yf in., which fell 22 ft. 11 in. short of his world record. Proof of the caliber of competition at Rome: Connolly's losing throw was still a foot better than the Olympic record he set in 1956. Winner of the event was Russia's Vasily Rudenkov at 220 ft. 1% in. ¶In the men's 200 meters, a lanky Italian chemistry student named Livio Berut-ti, 21, rocked U.S. prestige by tying the world record of 20.5 sec. and finishing a stride...
When the competition began, Hary showed up carrying a knapsack loaded with his gear, pointedly ignored his rivals clustered on a bench. Then he set to work. He lowered the Olympic record by .1 sec., to 10.2. in an early heat, won the semifinals in 10.3. In the finals, after making two false starts with the rest of the field, Hary poised on his blocks as steady as a carrier plane braced on its catapult. The six men came off the mark together, but within two strides Hary had accelerated to a half-meter lead. By the 50-meter mark...
...Rheingold: Conductor Heinz Tiet-jen's fast time of two hours and 17 minutes set in 1934 has never been beaten. Slowest time for the distance: two hours and 42 minutes in 1951 by Hans Knap-pertsbusch, long regarded, but unclocked, as a relatively "slow" conductor...