Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loaded with aviation officials and pressmen, the Soviet Union's huge Aeroflot jetliner, the Ilyushin-62, was scheduled to land at New York's Kennedy Airport after a stopover in Montreal. Total time: 12 hr. 40 min. A few hours later, a Pan American Boeing 707-321B jet was aimed for Moscow, via Copenhagen, for the 4,907-mile journey that was scheduled to last 10 hr. 35 min. Both planes were to return the next day, and both of the once-weekly flights will continue, with passengers paying from $548 for 14-to 21-day economy...
...course record for the Buenos Aires-Rio run, covering 1,200 miles in less than 190 hours. Two weeks ago, in the 635-mile Newport-Bermuda race, Ondine was becalmed for twelve hours, but still led the 151-boat fleet across the finish. Her time-83 hrs. 12 min.-was a full hour faster than the second boat. Strictly for Power. Unlike most ocean-racing yachts, which are designed to compete on corrected rather than actual time (under a labyrinthine handicapping formula), Ondine is built strictly for brute power. "The only things we're trying to prove," says Long...
...youngest of three racing brothers (a fourth drives a bus), Dancer spotted Nevele Pride as a yearling on a Pennsylvania farm in 1966 and purchased the colt for $20,000. Last year the trotter won a record $222,923 and turned in the fastest mile clocking (1 min. 58 2/5 sec.) ever achieved by a juvenile. Dancer is carefully pointing toward the Hambletonian, the U.S.'s most prestigious trotting race, on Aug. 25; hence he has raced the horse only lightly. Even at that, the colt won all four of his starts and $106,886-$83,373 at Roosevelt...
...field of eleven-that forced Dancer to "take the overland route" and drive three-wide for the first half of the mile race. Though Dancer eased him up at the end, Nevele Pride won in a waltz. His victory margin was four lengths, and his time-2 min. 22/5 sec. -clipped a full second off the old stakes record. "Before he is through," predicts Driver Dancer, "this horse could rewrite the record book." The erasers are already busy...
...much about winning as merely staying afloat. A draining, plug had popped out of Mona Lou's hull; when Lewis pulled into Nassau to refuel, he had to leap overboard and plug the hole with rags to keep the boat from sinking. Finally, after 10 hr. 54 min. of whomping on the water, during which he averaged 54 m.p.h., Lewis crossed the finish line to win the $10,000 first prize by a margin of only four seconds over Runner-Up Bill Sirois' 31-ft. Bertram. "You have to be on your toes all the time," Lewis allowed...