Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching It Go. Gemini 4's ascent went precisely according to plan: accelerating to 17,500 m.p.h., the spacecraft entered into an orbit that took it 175 miles high at apogee, 100 miles high at perigee. At 6 min. 6 sec. from liftoff, Command Pilot McDivitt set off a string of explosive bolts that set the capsule free from its second-stage booster. The booster dropped loose...
...their 22nd revolution, White and McDivitt broke the American record in space-34 hr. 20 min.-set by Gordon Cooper's Faith 7 flight on May 15, 1963. "I would like to congratulate you on the new American space-flight record," said the controller in Houston...
Rarely have the experts been so wrong. The only thing that remotely resembled a crash was a brief encounter between Bud Tingelstad's Lola-Ford and the wall on No. 3 turn. The yellow caution light shone for only 13 min. during the 31-hr. race- and 2 min. of that was the fault of a careless official who pulled the switch by mistake. Rookies finished third, fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth. Seven top cars used Firestone tires, and the first four were powered by rear-mounted Ford engines. Offy Boss Louis Meyer then announced that his firm...
...fight is over!" Walcott nodded, turned back-only to discover that Liston had managed to get on his feet. At that point, Joe grabbed Cassius' arm and hoisted it high into the air. Clay was the winner by a knockout. The official time of the K.O.: 1 min. of the first round-fastest ever in a heavyweight title fight...
Payday. It was nothing of the kind. Referee Walcott stopped the fight at 2 min. 12 sec.-which would make it only the seventh fastest. That was the least of the problems. Most of the fans in the arena had not seen the knockout punch; neither had the 500,000 others watching on closed-circuit TV. "Fix! Fix! Fix!" they chanted. "Fake! Fake! Fake!" At ringside, Joe Louis conceded that Clay had landed a right, "but it wasn't no good." Snapped Canadian Heavyweight George Chuvalo: "It's a phony, a real phony." Even Cassius was confused...