Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dyke Benjamin came close to breaking the Harvard record for the two-mile run with a time of 9 min., 25.4 sec. last Saturday in the Fourth Annual University of Connecticut Relays at Storrs, Conn. The present record for the race is 9min...
...something went wrong. A Navy range ship stationed 900 miles to the south reported only weak signals from the bird passing overhead. Then came silence. The elaborate Air Force tracking system, set up across the North Pacific especially for the Discoverer series, heard nothing for 1 hr. 30 min. Then a Hawaiian station heard a brief, faint signal. After five more hours of silence, Air Force stations in Alaska and the U.S. began to pick up sporadic signals. Last week, nearly five days after launch, the Department of Defense felt able to announce that Discoverer I was in polar orbit...
...Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune had located the Russian ship: 49°3O min. north, 49°20 min. west. Sixteen hours after Admiral Burke set the operation in motion, Hale had sighted Novorossisk, raised signal flags: HEAVE
...cables at the time of the interruptions. Experts' consensus: the trawler's heavily weighted nets had fouled in the cables; when the fishermen raised the nets, they raised the cables too, and the cables were broken or cut away to save the trawling gear.*After a 70-min. tour of the ship, Sheely asked the captain to move his fishing operation farther south, headed back to Hale. Reported Skipper Korte in Washington: "There were no indications of intentions other than fishing...
...launching crew at Cape Canaveral showed a new confidence, which spread to unofficial bird watchers. For the first time during a Vanguard launching, the newsmen did not organize a poker game to kill time during expected delays. In fact, there was only one 25-min. hold, which was due to a balky tracking instrument. The bird itself was raring...