Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baltimore's Colts trailed the New York Giants 17-14. Johnny Unitas, Baltimore quarterback, glanced quickly at the clock. In the next 2 min. 30 sec. he had to move the Colts from their own 20-yd. line into field-goal range, tie the score and force the first sudden-death playoff in a National Football League championship game...
...ever launched by a military crew. After prolonged preliminaries and one false start, Bennie Castillo turned the key that started the countdown. With cool efficiency, his five-man team rolled back a hangar-like shelter, elevated the bird, force-fed it with liquid oxygen, sent it soaring in 19 min. after the launch command was given (ultimate goal: 15 min.). The shot traveled the predetermined 1,450 miles over the Pacific, was rated a nuclear bull's eye by hitting within five miles of its target. The Vandenberg shot pointed up the fact that both Thor and military launching...
...first domestic jet airliner service with daily flights on the rich New York-Miami run. Using 600-m.p.h. Boeing 707s under a complicated lease-stock deal with Pan American, which already flies jets across the Atlantic, National will make the 1,100-mile run in 2 hr. 15 min. To make sure that it can fly jets, National signed contracts with its pilots, flight engineers and mechanics running into...
...meet was won by Michigan State's Crawford Kennedy, who took first place for the second straight year with a winning time of 24 min., 21 sec. Kennedy, whose elder brother won the race two years ago, led the Spartans to their third consecutive team victory, and sixth in the past 11 years...
...Crimson, Jed Fitzgerald finished 57th, in 27 min., 18 sec., while Mac Brown placed 73rd, in 26 min., 31 sec. and Ed Martin came in 85th, in 26 min...