Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impossible conditions, the new jalopies performed admirably. Of 17 vehicles entered, 14 managed to bulldoze across the finish line. The individual trophy went to Dexter Shultz, an American Airlines flight engineer who clumped over a log barricade to finish first in his ATV Manufacturing Co. Attex model in 36 min. flat (last-place time was 1 hr. 22 min.). Shultz averaged nearly 30 m.p.h. over unspeakable terrain. He came from behind to whip Advey, who drove one of his company's 8-h.p. Scramblers...
Whistle in Relief The anger in forgotten America has begun to express it self in politics. In addition to the Nixon election itself, it has influenced mayoralty votes from Los Angeles to Min neapolis to New York City (although each represented a spe cial situation that made its significance far from clear...
...next 3 hrs. 12 min., Armstrong and Aldrin busily read through check lists and punched out computer instructions, making all Eagle systems ready for a quick takeoff if it should become necessary Aldrin took time to describe the landing site: "It looks like a collection of just about every variety of shapes, Angularities, granularities, every variety of rock you could find...
Continuing their flawless flight, the astronauts zoomed past the western rim of the moon at 5,645 m.p.h. They were whipped behind the far side and into lunar orbit by the moon's gravity and a 5-min. 57-sec. burn of the reliable SPS engine that reduced their speed to 3,736 m.p.h. When they emerged from behind the eastern edge, after 34 minutes during which radio communication was blocked, they had dropped into a 70-by 196-mile-high orbit...
...University freshman entered three events and tied records in each of them: 1) his own world mark of 55.6 sec. in the 100-meter butterfly; 2) the American record in the 100-meter freestyle (52.6 sec.); 3) Don Schollander's world mark in the 200-meter freestyle (1 min. 54.3 sec.). Last spring, Spitz's sweep of three events led Indiana to the N.C.A.A. championship by 121 points. His performances since Mexico City have dispelled any doubt that he is still the world's premier swimmer...