Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours, with overnight recesses, during a 1938 filibuster. "I'm 73 now," says Ellender, "but I wouldn't mind trying it again." Also in the ranks: South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, who holds the alltime Senate wind record with an uninterrupted 24-hr. 18-min. speech during the 1957 civil rights debate; North Carolina's Sam Ervin, who is ready with a waist-high pile of books on constitutional law and a heap of stories about Uncle Ephraim and Job Hicks; and Louisiana's Russell Long, whose father Huey once rambled on for 151 hours...
Compromise Course. McNamara apparently opposes direct commitment of U.S. troops at present to combat the Viet Cong Communists. Back in Washington at week's end, he delivered a 1-hr. 15-min. verbal report to President Johnson, prepared a long written memorandum as well. Pentagon sources predicted that McNamara, while not discarding the possibility of some form of harassment against North Viet Nam, such as hit-and-run raids by Vietnamese guerrillas, was expected to urge that Washington simply step up its logistical support...
...joke, yuk, yuk. The boy needed a little publicity, and we were just giving him a hand. So said the three defendants who were accused of kidnaping Frank Sinatra Jr. Said the jury, after only 6 hrs. 53 min. of deliberation: guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. Six counts for two, five for the other, and the judge was obviously prepared for the verdict. One of the kidnapers managed to wangle a delay in sentencing, but the other two got the book and the bibliography both: life imprisonment, plus 75 years...
...Loyola of Chicago's Tom O'Hara, 21: the featured mile race at the Chicago Daily News Relays, by 80 yds., in 3 min. 56.4 sec.-breaking his own world indoor record by .2 sec. "I could have run two seconds faster if I had wanted to let out," said O'Hara...
...month program of running and rhythmic calisthenics, which became progressively more strenuous, the volunteers shaped up dramatically. On the average, Dr. Holloszy told the American College of Cardiology, the men cut their time for running a mile, from 8 min. 51 sec. to 7 min. 36 sec. And they did so with far less huff, puff and heart strain: pulse rates were as much as 19 beats-per-minute lower following exercise than they had been at the beginning of the program...