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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after 20 hr. and 15 min. in the fighting chair, Clarke felt his line go slack. The violently thrashing marlin had finally managed to chafe through the thin monofilament and escape. Clarke and Young headed for home...
Over the past two years, Spitz has won 22 national and international titles, broken ten world records and 28 U.S. marks. He is the current world record holder in both the 100-meter butterfly (55.7 sec.) and the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 5.7 sec.), needs only to pare a total of seven seconds off his best times to set records in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle and the 200-meter individual medley (breast stroke, backstroke and crawl). At last year's Pan American games in Winnipeg, he won five gold medals. The only...
...could have been worse. When the U.C.L.A. lead reached an astonishing 44 points with 5 min. to go, Wooden mercifully removed his starters one by one. Alcindor left with 2:04 to play, and raised his long right arm high in the air with the index finger extended to signify No. 1. Who could argue? Said Houston Coach Guy Lewis: "That was the greatest exhibition of basketball I've ever seen in my life...
Wilder) uproariously funny for at least half its 88-min. running time, after which Mel Brooks the writer fails Mel Brooks the director by slipping into something sentimental...
...year-old Franco Nones became the first person other than a Scandinavian or Russian ever to win an Olympic cross-country ski race. A wiry customs agent from Castello di Fiemme in the Dolomites, the tireless Nones sped 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) in 1 hr. 35 min. 39.2 sec., to beat Norway's Odd Martinsen by the margin of 49.7 sec.-roughly the equivalent of three city blocks. Some experts credited Nones' victory to the wax he used on his skis -a special green wax designed particularly for the kind of crusty, frozen snow that covered the course...