Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thien, plainly, is not Dienbienphu. The French garrison was 76 min. by air from its supply sources, isolated in a narrow valley over 200 miles from the French stronghold at Hanoi. The French were hemmed in and, after the 56-day Viet Minh siege began, had to be resupplied by parachute drops through dense antiaircraft fire. Con Thien can be resupplied within six minutes by helicopter from Dong Ha, ten miles to the southeast, or by land from Cam Lo, seven miles to the south, when the road is not washed out. The French conceived of Dienbienphu as "the cork...
...cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took aim, let fly and ripped the cutout right in the crotch. Carson, his crew and the audience broke into a hysterical orgy of laughter that ran 3 min. 45 sec. on the tape-probably the longest sidesplitter in television history...
...Intrepid. Mosbacher had to veer off sharply; in the process, Intrepid caught a blast of air from a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that wrapped her mainsail around the backstay, cost her more than 30 sec. of racing time. She still beat Dame Pattie to the first mark by 1 min...
...which zero is zero, a point is a point, one game of 31 points decides a match, and both spectators and players are spared such dreary marathons as one of the doubles contests at last month's Newport Hall of Fame Invitational. The match lasted 6 hrs. 10 min., and the final score was 3-6, 49-41, 22-20. With that ever-present possibility, it is no wonder that the West Side Tennis Club's 14,000-seat stadium in Forest Hills, N.Y., was one-third empty throughout most of last week's U.S. National championships...
...Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total of 13 hrs. 44 min...