Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carolyn House, 14, a sturdy, 5-ft. 4-in. blonde from Los Angeles who still sports braces on her teeth and looks young enough to crash the ticket gate for half fare, gracefully stroked her way to a new American record of 19 min. 45 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle, longest and most grueling of all swimming events...
...spring the no-meter high hurdles in 14.5 sec., hurl the discus 170 ft. 6½ in. (almost 10 ft. farther than he had ever thrown it before), pole-vault 13 ft. ¼ in., throw the javelin 233 ft. 3 in. and run 1,500 meters in 5 min. 9.9 sec. Yet even though Rafer Johnson had broken Kuznetsov's ten-event record after only nine events. Johnson's victory was still in doubt. C. K. Yang had not yet run his 1,500-meter heat; a time of 4 min. 34.8 sec. would earn him enough points...
Pitted first against a Cornell crew that defeated the Crimson earlier in the season, Coach Harvey Love's boat lost by a length and a half. Cornell in turn was barely edged out by Navy, which won the 2000-meter heat in 6 min. 37.7 sec., fastest time...
...winning for the third consecutive year, the crew defeated the highly-regarded Detroit Boat Club shell by 1 1/2 lengths in the final round, winning in the impressive time of 6 min., 47 seconds. Only once before, and never in this century, has a crew won the Thames Cup three consecutive times...
...varsity lightweights also broke the Thames Cup record on Wednesday, the first day of the regatta. In beating the Isis Boat Club, the lightweights rowed a 6 min., 39 sec. record race over the 1 and 5/16 mile course. Kent School of Connecticut also provided tough competion for the Crimson...