Word: hrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twentieth century liners shrank the Atlantic almost to lake-size, but travelers could still relax in a deck chair and feel suspended in time for a week-on the older, sedater liners (the S.S. United States last month crossed in 3 days 10 hrs. 40 min., barely enough time to make friends with the deck steward). In 1927, a daring young man in a flying crate, name of Lindbergh, made his way from New York to Paris in 33½ hrs. Millions who have followed his route since then-immersed in mystery stories, poker or the semistupor of Dramamine-have...
...mere ditch-size. The three-man crew of a sleek, black & silver British Canberra Mark V jet bomber took off from Northern Ireland's Aldergrove Airport one morning, crossed the Atlantic, had lunch in Gander, Newfoundland, and were back at Aldergrove in time for tea. Flying time: 7 hrs. 59 minutes...
...mention that the sailplane duration record is 12 hrs. 3 min. This is incorrect, as the present record is 56 hrs., established this spring by a French soaring pilot. U.S. record is 22 hrs...
...Olympic javelin mark of 165 ft. 7.05 in., husband Emil cracked the Olympic 5,000-meter record in 14 min. 6 sec. With a 10,000-meter record already in the bag, he entered the 26-mile marathon three days later, broke another Olympic record in 2 hrs. 23 min. 3.2 sec. to become the only Olympic athlete ever to sweep the three distance races...
...cool downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves of air that oscillate in the lee of California's High Sierra (TIME, Oct. 1) U.S. pilots in pressurized gliders have climbed to 42,100 ft.; over California's Coast Range they have stayed aloft 12 hrs. 3 min.-both world records...