Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruinous to the land is strip min ing for coal, Kentucky's most profit able product, that huge swaths of the Bluegrass State might be mistaken for the moon. Both boon and bane, strip mining gouges out a third of Ken tucky's coal production, which last year reached 93 million tons worth some $500 million. The strip miners use bull dozers to flay great strips off the sur face and get at the veins beneath. This scars Appalachia's hills and flatlands with ugly detritus called overburden or spoil. As the spoil shifts and slides...
SITUATION: the 1965 "big game" with Archrival Southern Cal. U.C.L.A. trails by ten points with only 4 min. left to play. What happens? Sophomore Beban throws a 34-yd. pass for one touchdown, a 52-yd. pass for another, and U.C.L.A. wins...
SITUATION: the 1967 season opener against Tennessee. Twice Beban has rallied his team from deficits of 0-7 and 3-13. Now, with 4 min. left, U.C.L.A. again trails, 13-16. The Bruins have the ball, fourth and two on the Tennessee 27, and Coach Tommy Prothro calls Beban to the sideline. "I want you," he says, "to run one more great play." Gary nods. Next play, he tucks the ball under his arm, wriggles to his right, cuts back, outruns five Tennessee linemen, breaks two tackles in the secondary, and scampers into the end zone to give U.C.L.A...
...headed out from Rockaway, L.I., bound for Plymouth, England. Two of the planes were hammered down by squalls off the Azores, but Read somehow kept his NC4 aloft and eventually set down in Plymouth-after 23 days, seven stops, 3,936 miles. Actual flying time: 52 hr. 3 min. for an average of 75.6 m.p.h...
...frosted the idea, Linda added a red one-piecer to her attire and plunged in. She lost her goggles three-quarters of the way to England, then stumbled on the rocks at the finish and badly gashed herself above the left breast. But her time of 9 hr. 59 min. broke the women's record by 25 min. (and was 4 hr. 32 min. faster than Gertrude Ederle's unprecedented swim in 1926), and she missed the men's mark by only 24 min...