Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain's Manuel Santana, 27: the U.S. National Singles tennis championship, beating South Africa's Cliff Drysdale 6-2, 7-9, 7-5, 6-1 in a final match that was interrupted for 40 min. by rain; at Forest Hills, N.Y. Ranked No. 3 in the world (behind Australia's Roy Emerson and the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, both of whom were eliminated in the quarter-finals), Santana spent the recess buying 15 pairs of wool socks to wear over his sneakers for better footing on the muddy court, limited Drysdale to one game the rest...
...number of patches range from 16 splices for a 2-min. pop tune to 72 for a 13-min. piano piece...
...California's Ed Weiner: the $10,000 Transcontinental Trophy Dash for propeller-driven airplanes, piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...
...first horse that wins two heats. So the race went into overtime-a trot-off among the three heat winners. Before the final, Cameron offered Dancer the seat in Egyptian Candor's sulky. Stanley refused, and Cameron went on to win by a head in 2 min. 10.2 sec.-second slowest time in Hambletonian history. "The best horse didn't win," Cameron said later. "Noble Victory was the best horse." Try and tell that to Rachel Dancer, whose winner's share of the $122,245 purse-$59,900-put her one up on her husband...
...endurance record fell as the clock at Mission Control ticked off 119 hr. 6 min. from liftoff. Sitting at his control panel, Kraft said just one word: "Zap!"-a Buck Rogers exclamation to describe the blast of space guns. Then he got on the line to Cooper: "How does it feel for the U.S. to be a world record holder, Gordo?" Replied the laconic spaceman: "At last...