Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cutting his engines back to a cozy 5,200 r.p.m., Aronow sashayed over the glassy Bahama flats at a steady 55 knots, crossed the finish line in 3 hrs. 19 min. 36 sec.-slicing 45 sec. off the race record. "I could have made it in three hours flat," shrugged Aronow, "the sea was so calm." So calm, in fact, that 007 still showed the dirty footprints that somebody had left on her bow back in Miami. Even at 66 knots, 007 had not churned up enough spray to wet the deck...
...Bold Lad: a three-length victory in the Mowlee Purse; at Aqueduct. Fully recovered from the painful "splints" (tumorlike growths) on his forelegs that had kept him out of action since last October, Wheatley Stable's six-time stakes winner sped six furlongs in 1 min., 10 2/5 sec., stamped himself as a strong contender for May's Kentucky Derby...
...Yale's Don Schollander, 18: the 200-yd. freestyle in the national A.A.U. men's swimming championships at New Haven: in an American record time of 1 min. 41.7 sec., to continue his winning ways after collecting four gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Another teenager, Greg Buckingham, upset Veteran Roy Saari in the 400-yd. individual medley, but Saari consoled himself with a first in the 1,650-yd. freestyle...
...Oxford: a four-length victory over Cambridge in the 111th Dark Blue-Light Blue crew race down the Thames, stroking the 41-mile course in 18 min. 7 sec. Powered by four sturdy Yanks, all former Yalemen studying at Oxford, the Darks opened up two lengths after the first mile, pulled steadily away for their 49th...
...Ferraris, but instead of manual gear boxes, they had-that's right-automatic transmissions. "Better acceleration," Hall insisted, and in a practice run for last week's twelve-hour Prix de 1'Endurance, he tooled around Sebring's 5.2-mile course in 2 min. 57.6 sec.-nine seconds better than the fastest Ford...