Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amazed by the amount of publicity given to the announcement that Attorney General Robert Kennedy and some others managed to walk 50 miles. In December 1925, Miss Eleanora Sears walked from Providence to Boston, a distance of 47.8 miles, in 10 hrs. 20 min...
...corps, took the 50 miles in stride. Led by Brigadier General Rathvon McClure Tompkins, 50, who still limps from an old shrapnel wound, all finished within the time limit, carrying 24-lb. combat packs. Tompkins finished ninth. Bachelor Lieut. Donald Bernath trotted in first-in 11 hr. 44 min.-just in time to keep a date with his best girl. At Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a contingent of marines managed to finish 53 miles, took exactly 20 hours...
...walked toward Harpers Ferry. Come on, beckoned Bobby, let's run a bit ''just to loosen up." By the 35-mile mark, all four aides had dropped out. but Bobby completed the 50 miles alone in a respectable 17 hr. 50 min. And next morning he rose at 7:30, made it to 9 o'clock mass and then went ice skating with his children...
...gusto with which they once stuffed telephone booths. In California 400 Marin County high school students set out, and 97 finished-including 16-year-old Diana Congdon, who covets a place among lady discus throwers in the 1964 Olympics and who walked the 50 miles in 13 hr. 29 min., toting an 8-lb. knapsack filled with a diminishing supply of candy, oranges and fresh clothes. In Burlington, N.C., a 58-year-old postman (who rides a motor scooter on his route) walked the 50 miles in 10 hr. 28 min.. boasted he could cut two hours off that...
...Time: 3 min. 58.6 sec., three-tenths of a second better than Beatty's own year-old indoor record. There was glory, too, for Tom O'Hara; he had run his first sub-four-minute mile, with 3:59.2. "Just after Tom passed me, I decided: 'This is it,' " said Beatty. "He had a big heart. All he lacked was experience...