Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which the Air Force had christened it-Valkyrie. At California's Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation Test Pilot Al White took the XB-70A off the runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...
...Young, 34, could be pardoned for feeling a mite tense. They were on their backs, 100 ft. up, in a sealed Gemini capsule atop a fully fueled Titan II rocket while launching personnel put the spacecraft through a mock countdown. And there they lay for 2 hr. 54 min., while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other foul-ups developed to scrub a real shot. But that's what practices are for, said NASA, holding to its projected launch date of March 22 for the first U.S. two-man mission...
...spare his aging stars, Detroit Coach Sid Abel makes full use of an old pro football tactic: free substitution. All other N.H.L. teams operate with three offensive lines, alternate them every 2½min. or so. Abel uses four lines, substitutes every 1½ min. "Play twice as hard for half the time," he tells the players. "The big secret around here is the spirit," says Ted Lindsay. "I'm happy. We're all happy. And we're going to win this thing." They just might, at that...
...always had a flair for making waves, in the pool and out. The strapping (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.) daughter of a Sydney shipwright, now married to a bookmaker, she has broken 36 world records, won four Olympic gold medals. She was the first woman to crack 1 min. for the 110-yd. free style, the only swimmer of either sex to win the same event (the 100 meters) in three successive Olympic competitions. ("If I had been able to swim nude," she says, "I'm sure I would have broken the minute much earlier than...
Skipper Long grudgingly admitted to a "certain elation" as Ondine's time was logged at 221 hrs. 52 min. and she was assured the coveted blue ribbon that goes to the first boat to finish. Two days later, when officials finally finished calculating the complicated handicap formula, Ondine had also won a fancy silver trophy for being the fastest on corrected time...