Word: looping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heyburn began to fall back, but Pottetti. who had started cautiously, began to catch several runners exhausted by the fast pace. It was the first time that the opening loop has ever been run in less than seven minutes...
After the first one-and-a-half mile loop, the pace began to wear down Downey and Yunek. Colburn and Koerner, with help from John Heyburn, then tried to break Stafford...
...Yankee Clipper, will blaze its own distinctive path. Halfway to the moon, Apollo 12 Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, a veteran of two earth-girdling Gemini flights, will fire the spacecraft's service propulsion engine, jolting the ship out of its "free-return" trajectory. No longer able to loop the moon automatically and return to earth, should its engine falter, Apollo 12 could be lost forever in an orbit around the sun. But NASA flight planners feel that the maneuver is worth the risk: it will save crucial fuel reserves on the way to the landing site...
CHICAGO, Sat., Oct. 11-250 Weathermen made a suicidal charge through police lines into Chicago's downtown Loop today, smashing store windows and fighting police for fifteen minutes before they were rounded up. One Chicago city attorney was seriously injured; 103 Weathermen were arrested...
...Weathermen moved out, walking east down Randolph St. toward Lake Michigan at a rapid clip. Chants of "Power to the People" and "Off the Pig" resounded off the towering glass fronts of the Loop buildings...