Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fancy Free. In the opening race of their climactic series, Mosbacher put Vim across the starting line ahead of Columbia -but to leeward. Shields merely tacked to get free air, and walked away from Vim to finish with the wide lead of 4 min. i sec. Next day, before the gun, Mosbacher got astern of Columbia as Shields maneuvered toward the starting line. Both boats were on the starboard tack (wind over the right side), and Shields was trapped. He could not come about onto the port tack to get to the line without violating Mosbacher's right...
...windward, where he could get free air, and that was all he needed. Beating upwind against a 20-knot southwester on the twice-around, windward-leeward course of 24 miles, Columbia was out ahead rounding the first mark, plowed on through the running sea to win by 2 min...
...Allied Stores Corp. opened Bergen Mall near Hackensack, within 40 min. driving time of a New York-New Jersey market with annual income of $2.67 billion. Clustered around a four-story Allied Stern's department store are 39 major shops. Yearly sales of the center are running at about $70 million...
...rock-strewn slopes and box canyons of Colorado's Mt. Evans (14,260 ft.) and there staged some weird exercises. Led by a tall, lean and weathered man in Alpine shoes, long, green wool stockings and climbing knickers, the airmen went on ever-lengthening hikes (from 90 min. to ten hours), ran up and down the steep slopes above timberline, leaped from boulder to boulder. Purpose: Air Force wanted to know whether the human organism can be preconditioned for the peculiar conditions and hazards of space travel...
...track unknown, wiry (5 ft. 5½ in., 124 Ibs.) Australian Bert Thomas, 23, kept a scorching pace for the three-mile run at Dublin's Santry cinder track, streaked to the finish with a new world record (13 min. 10.8 sec.), bettering Sandor Iharos' 1955 record...