Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GAME. A short (47 min.), grainy, neorealistic film about what would happen if the Bomb were dropped on England...
...GAME. A short (47 min.), grainy, neorealistic film about what would happen if the Bomb were dropped on England...
...there really are any absolutes in sport, they defy recognition-especially these days, when a 19-year-old college freshman has run a 3-min. 51.3-sec. mile, and a 6-ft. ¾in. high jumper has cleared a bar 17 in. above his own head. Sports records have always been perishable, but in the U.S. today the spoilage rate is enormous. Athletes have never been so skillful, competition has never been so tough, and the U.S. appetite for sport has never been so insatiable...
Beyond equipment, there is the matter of modern training. Athletes have always trained, but never so scientifically, so intensely. Glenn Cunningham, who set a world mark of 4 min. 6.8 sec. for the mile in 1934, used to call it a day after a lazy three-mile practice run; Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas sophomore who last year lowered the record to 3 min. 51.3 sec., runs at least twelve miles a day, lifts weights to increase lung capacity and competes against sprinters in relays to sharpen his speed. No longer do athletes worry about becoming musclebound, says Chemical...
...million. Even so, the partners hope that when the 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde goes into commercial use in 1971, it will snare a sizable chunk of the market before the Boeing SST begins hopping the Atlantic at 1,800 m.p.h. in 2 hrs. 20 min.-a full 55 min. faster than the Concorde...