Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ships starting, one sank, nine were demasted, and another 26 turned back. The Lancetilla came in first in its second division and ahead of all but four of the first-division boats, winning the coveted Blue Water Bowl with a corrected time of 72 hr. 27 min. 28 sec. Said one of Cameron's exultant colleagues: "Does Chichester need a bosun on his next voyage...
...outcome of the bill to make desecration of the flag a federal offense was as predictable as the summer solstice. No less predictable was the House debate on the measure, which consumed 5 hrs. 12 min. and was almost wholly devoted to the oratorical flights that Congressmen usually relegate to the file drawer marked Independence Day. Among the bill's few critics were those who considered its proposed penalties -one year in jail, $1,000 fine, or both -too mild by half for such offenders...
...There was Intrepid, skipping merrily across Long Island Sound, en route to an easy victory over American Eagle in last week's preliminary cup trials. Then Bus steered the wrong way around a buoy, had to come about -and thereby converted a 56-sec. lead into a 1-min. 2-sec. defeat...
...could improve his design for Constellation-the boat that beat Eagle in the 1964 U.S. trials, then went on to wipe up Britain's Sovereign in four straight races-got their answer when Intrepid whipped Connie three times in a row by ever bigger margins: 50 sec., 1 min. 44 sec., 2 min. 11 sec. In two rematches with Eagle, Intrepid coasted to 2-min. 30-sec. and 5-min. 34-sec. victories, and finally, she really rubbed it in against Mosbacher's old boat Weatherly-by the embarrassing margin of 6 min...
...course consists of windward beats. And they could hardly fail to applaud the performance put on by Mosbacher and his well-drilled crew during the third race against Constellation. Thirty-five times Connie tacked; 33 times Mosbacher covered; when he finally broke off, Intrepid had a lead of 1 min...