Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helsinki. And there he was up against the world's toughest competition: Russia's Vladimir Kazantsev, the Soviet Union's best bet for a gold medal in men's track. Kazantsev was merely coasting, hinted his modest compatriots, in setting an Olympic record of 8 min. 58 sec. in the first qualifying heat...
...from the barrier in one smooth glide, splashed on one foot near the water's edge, swung up on the turf, then back on the track. Sailing over the final hurdle, he sprinted the last 30 yards, finished 6.2 sec. ahead of tottering Vladimir. His time: 8 min. 45.4 sec., the fastest steeplechase ever run on either side of the Iron Curtain...
...downdrafts (see chart). In the great mountain-lifted waves of air that oscillate in the lee of California's High Sierra (TIME, Oct. 1) U.S. pilots in pressurized gliders have climbed to 42,100 ft.; over California's Coast Range they have stayed aloft 12 hrs. 3 min.-both world records...
Died. Norman Stephen Taber, 60, financial consultant, managing director of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, former (1948-49) budget director of ECA, and for eight years (1915-23) holder of the world's record for the mile run (4 min. 12.6 sec.);* of cancer; in Orange...
...Present record: 4 min. 1.4 sec., set by Sweden's Gunder...