Article October 27, 1956 ISSUE

Signs of the Times

with contributions from W. Phillips

Editorial in the University of Washington Daily Seattle, Washington

The four-minute mile was long thought to be a human impossibility. Athletes from many nations trained rigorously for years and failed one after the other to "break" this time barrier. Then suddenly the impossible was accomplished. Roger Bannister of Oxford covered the distance in three minutes, fifty-nine and four-tenths seconds.

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