Word: yd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking Hammond's place in the 400 yd. medley relay, Bruce Hunter teamed up with Bill Murray, Doug McCartney, and Dick Seaton to turn in a time of 4:02.1. McCartney's time of 1:06 was his fastest time of the season...
Died. Marshall Teague, 37, auto racer, A.A.A. national stock car champion in 1952 and 1954; in the 500-yd. rolling crash of a new Sumar Streamliner; during a test run on the new speed track at Daytona Beach...
...news broke, schools began closing. "Mockery and disrespect for Guatemalan schoolchildren," declared a student manifesto. "Besides possessing a normal psychobiological makeup, a candidate for such a post should also have the necessary culture and education." Teachers' groups begged Ydígoras to change his mind...
...President was surprised. He had only wanted to reward a blood relative, as he had done in naming his brother Alvaro as head of the government land office, his niece Soledad Ydígoras as chief of procurement for school supplies, and Julia's son Boris as assistant secretary to the President. But Ydígoras switched sides abruptly and grabbed Julia's resignation, announcing that he was heeding "opinions widely held by educational groups." Darkly, Julia declared that "Communists and Mexicans" were against her, announced that "I am no longer to be called Ydígoras...
...North Sydney, Australia, the U.S.'s 16-year-old Sylvia Ruuska splashed to victory in the 220-yd. butterfly, touching out in 2 min. 40.3 sec., to set new world records for both 220 yds. and 200 meters. Aussies John Devitt and John Konrads lowered their own world freestyle marks, Devitt at 110 yds., Konrads at 440 yds. and 400 meters...