Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first was at Corvallis, Ore.; Lind-gren's time was a so-so 29 min. 37.6 sec. One month later, at the U.S.-Russia track meet, he shaved 20 sec. off that time. Last week he ran the fastest 10,000 meters run by an American all year: 29 min. 2 sec.-winning by 70 yds. and waving happily to the wildly cheering crowd. No one, least of all Lindgren, has the foggiest idea how fast he can really run. "I'm not sure I can do any better than 29.2," Lindgren says. "But I sure hope...
With that, the state rested. The defense took 1 hr. 40 min. to present its case, which consisted chiefly of unsworn testimony by both Sims and Myers that they were innocent. "I believe I was in Athens at the time," said Sims. Parroted Myers: "I do believe I was in Athens at this time." State Solicitor-General Clete Johnson demanded the death penalty, told the jury: "This is an extreme case and demands the extreme penalty. It was cold-blooded assassination...
...Georgia juries are not in the habit of convicting white men for killing Negroes, and at week's end, after deliberating for 3 hrs. 15 min., the allwhite, all-male jury found Klansmen Sims and Myers not guilty...
...said: "I can't afford to swim more than 30 hours. I have an important business appointment in Spain day after tomorrow." Then he waded in, hoping to become the second man to complete the 44-mile round trip to France and back. He took 12 hr. 35 min. to get halfway, was back to within eight miles of Dover when the channel turned against him, forced him to quit. But California Schoolgirl Leonore Modell, 14, doesn't have to worry about the boss. So she swam the chilly channel against the tide in 15 hr. 30 min...
...hardly a roaring nor'easter but plenty stiff for Eagle to show what she had. And that was not enough. Constellation boomed out ahead after the start, tucked Eagle neatly into her backwind, was 43 sec. ahead rounding the first mark, and wound up clobbering Eagle by 4 min. 29 sec. Less than two hours later, Commodore Henry Morgan, chairman of the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee, stepped aboard Connie at her moorings. "It is my very happy duty," he said, "to announce that Constellation has been selected to defend the America's Cup in September...