Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympic team, compiled a list of what he considered to be the "ultimate" in track and field performances. No one, said Hamilton out of confidence based on long experience, would ever run the 100-yd. dash in less than 9.2 sec. or the mile in less than 3 min. 57.8 sec. No one would ever put the shot more than 62 ft., throw the discus more than 200 ft., do better than 7 ft. 1 in. in the high jump, 27 ft. in the long jump, or 16 ft. in the pole vault...
...race to Mono. Lou III, another 32-ft. Maritime powered by twin 427-h.p. MerCruisers and piloted by Florida's Odell Lewis, 34, who used to wrestle alligators for sport until it got too tame. Bounding along at an average 50 m.p.h., he finished in 12 hr. 36 min. 20 sec., just as darkness closed in on Grand Bahama. "I ain't afraid of alligators," he said, "but nothing is going to keep me out there on that ocean after dark...
...Mary's shortest Atlantic crossing was a record three days, 20 hr. 42 min., since surpassed by the S.S. United States' three days, 10 hr. 40 min...
...astonishment at Churchill Downs last week when the Derby winner turned out to be Proud Clarion, a 30-to-l shot that didn't even have a jockey 48 hours before the race. What's more, Proud Clarion ran the mile and a quarter in 2 min. 1/5 sec., third fastest time in history, only 1/5 sec. off the track record-and all in a steady downpour that turned the track...
...with her new look-sharper in the bow, smaller in the keel, wider in the beam. All her crew got was the same old look: a view of Dame Panic's transom. Five times the two boats raced, and five times Pattie won-by margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause was still hopeless. Pattie had proved conclusively that...