Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philippines, church bells clanged in suddenly tilted steeples as a 1-min. quake rolled across the island of Luzon in predawn darkness, catching most Filipinos in their beds. Cracks appeared in the façades of luxury hotels in Manila, and glass panes were wrenched out of the airport control tower by the shock. A five-story apartment building in Manila's Chinese quarter collapsed, trapping 600 people under tons of rubble. At least 111 were known dead in the Philippines' worst earthquake in over a decade...
...Acorn Stakes at Belmont by six lengths, packing 121 lbs. and tying the one-mile track record of 1 min. 34 4/5 sec.-set in 1942 by the famed Count Fleet, carrying only 116 lbs. She followed that up with a ten-length victory in Belmont's 1¼-mile Mother Goose Stakes and a twelve-length triumph in the 1¼-mile Coaching Club American Oaks, thereby becoming the first thoroughbred in history to capture the filly Triple Crown. By post time at the $57,950 Delaware Oaks two weeks ago, Dark Mirage had just about...
...ship home through the Panama Canal. A pilot flying from Bermuda to New York advised passengers on takeoff-accurately, as it turned out-of his three-hour flight plan: "Two to get there and one to circle." American Airlines reported that the previous week's average 88-min. delay at Kennedy rose last week to one day's average of 3 hr. 14 min. on the Chicago-to-New York run. Before the crisis, rush-hour delays at Kennedy averaged 30 min...
...Elliot Fishman had just reached the grounds and was still wiping his sunglasses when it happened. "I glanced out," he recalls, "and there was this s.o.b., coming like blazes with his mouth wide open. I struck him, and that brute jumped 19 times." It took Fishman 3 hrs. 28 min. to boat the marlin. At the dock four hours later (during which time it undoubtedly lost weight by dehydration), the marlin measured 13 ft. 1 in. in length and tipped the scales at 845 lbs.-a new world record...
Somehow, Some Way. After 11 hrs. and 40 min., including a stop at Montreal, a stewardess announced that we had arrived over New York on time, and everyone buckled up for landing. Over the cockpit radio, however, Kennedy control was explaining that there were serious traffic delays (because of the tower workers' slowdown). Pilot Egorov also was told that his flight could be given priority for an almost immediate landing. He politely declined, radioing that "Aeroflot Zero Three will go in turn like the rest." In that case, said control, our plane's turn would come...