Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener to a Vuillard world record of $70,000. To the consternation of the mink-coated main-salesroom elite, the loudspeaker bids from lesser collectors relegated to the TV sets kept right up with the big money...
...year old last week, Cecil B. DeMille's $13.5 million The Ten Commandments seemed certain of being the top money movie of all time. Already seen by almost 22 million moviegoers, the 3-hr. 39-min. spectacle has grossed more than $29 million in only 917 theaters (a top hit can easily run in 15,000). The big money champion up to now, Gone With the Wind ($33.5 million since 1939), will soon be outdistanced. After some 40 years of moviemaking, DeMille's skilled old hand once again blends, to the public's obvious liking, an unbeatable...
...much more ambitious than 1957 Alpha (Sputnik I). According to Moscow, it weighs more than six times as much (1,120.8 Ibs.), and it circles on a higher orbit, reaching more than 1,000 miles above the earth at its highest point, and taking slightly longer (1 hr. 43.7 min.) to complete a circuit. The instrumented section is not designed to separate from the casing of the final-stage rocket, as Sputnik I did. This suggests that the rocket can be deliberately turned tail forward. If it burns fuel in this position, its speed will be reduced, bringing it back...
...Senator Thurmond may have told Senator Russell that he intended to make a "long speech," but he did not say he intended to make a Senate-record filibuster of 24 hr. 18 min...
...born Greta Anderson Sonnichsen, 30, now a California housewife, showed more speed and stamina than any of the other 23 men and women entered in the international mass swim from France to England. She made it from Cape Gris-Nez to the cliffs of Dover in 13 hr. 53 min. More than two hours later, Britain's Kenneth Wray staggered ashore. No other swimmer even finished...