Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhaustion, sleep or urgencies of nature ended the ordeal. Other North Carolina stations matched WFLB's stunt, upped the prize value progressively to $3,000. Sue Huron, a Pittsburgh secretary of 22, kept Fayetteville station WFAI busy crackling out regular reports on her monologue of 92 hrs. 1 min. 4 sec. Then Kansas got into the act, when 29-year-old Mrs. Carmen Araiza talked of enchiladas and children for 93 hrs. 36 min. 9 sec. over Topeka's WREN. Ready to challenge the new champion was Mrs. Edith Fisher, 29, a clerk in a mailorder house...
Almost forgotten in the week's tragic news was the fact that Alpha and Bravo both landed in England after record-breaking crossings. The time, covering 3,442 miles: 5 hr. 27 min. 42.8 sec.-or an average 630.02 m.p.h.-for Alpha; 5 hr. 29 min. 37.4 sec. for Bravo...
...were really trying. But Elliott, who had spent more energy in the trials, also had more in reserve. With Oklahoma's Gail Hodgson and California's Don Bowden to pace them through the first three quarters, the two Aussies came into the final lap with 3 min. 3.8 sec. gone. It hardly seemed probable that they would crack four minutes. But now that the race belonged to them, they both dug in. They sprinted through the last lap like fresh quarter-milers. Lincoln's fine finishing kick brought him to the finish in 3:58.5. But Herb...
Maurice Harold Macmillan, Prime Min ister of Great Britain. . . .LL.D...
French timed a test run from Manhattan to Zahns Airport to see how long the car carrying Murphy's passenger would take (1 hr. 40 min.). A year later, in Rockefeller Center, French picked out Dominican Consul General Arturo Espaillat as the man he had seen talking to Murphy when he rented the plane. ("With FBI agents around me, I followed him into a candy store. I positively identified him, and my heart jumped clear up in my throat.") The clincher in the FBI files: Murphy's original flight chart to Monte Cristi, including his handwritten notes, left...