Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortnight ago Dr. Hall returned from his two-week tour in Leningrad and Moscow as a guest of the Soviet Min istry of Health. He was disappointed...
...French love whatever comes out of a bottle, even if it happens to be water. Not ordinary water, of course, which they distrust. Last year they spent $160 million to buy 1.75 billion bottles of Eau minérale...
...Early in the sixth race, he seemed hopelessly behind McNamara. But a wind shift caught McNamara unawares and then, rounding the first mark, the Bostonian and his two-man crew somehow committed the neophyte's gaffe of letting their spinnaker whip into an hourglass snarl. They took 1 min. 30 sec. to unfoul it, and limped in seventh to Cox's sixth. That put Cox only H points behind, 39|-381, and he poured it on in the seventh race-outmaneuvering his shaken opponent, then covering him all the way to a second-place finish against...
...sails, the chance to skim first around the buoy. Frantically trying to make up lost ground, McNamara and his crew then did the incredible once again. The spinnaker was billowing; then as they jibed, flutter, flutter, there it was, snarled around the headstay. This time it took 2 min. 35 sec. to un tangle the mess, and by then Bill Cox was well ahead and home free for the championship...
...four have placed in stakes races. The star of the stable is Buckpasser, a son of Tom Fool, who won more money last year ($568,096) than any two-year-old in history, has won eight out of nine races so far this year-setting a world record (1 min. 32 ⅜sec.) for the mile in the process-and needs only to win this week's Travers Stakes at Saratoga to become the first three-year-old equine millionaire...