Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stopped at an all-night diner for a 45-min. breakfast break (the band had not eaten since 6 p.m.). By 9:30 a.m., the bus was within "14 hands" of Cleveland (distances are invariably measured in poker hands), and the bandsmen hoped they might have time for some sleep before the concert. As it turned out, they had time only for showers before piling out into 90-degree heat in the big tent where they were to play. For all that, the band blew its lungs out for two hours; in such numbers as Malaguena and Waltz...
Looking like a seal and feeling mighty seasick, U.S. Frogman Fred Baldasare, 38, lumbered from the Dover surf into the arms of his frisky German fiancee with a new record of sorts: he was the first man to swim the English Channel underwater. For 18 hr. 1 min. the former U.S. Army film director submarined along 15 feet beneath the surface, accompanied by a launch and encased in a steel cage that kept the aqualunged swimmer from drifting off course. Said the feisty Floridian, who prepped for his 22-mile swim by traversing the Straits of Messina's Scylla...
Sixth Payoff. Soon after Telstar was launched, NASA's global tracking network reported it on a perfect orbit. At Andover, anxious scientists heard with relief that its telemetering system was working precisely as planned, reporting no trouble at all. But during its first five 158-min. orbits, Telstar did not come within practical line-of-sight distance of the big ear in Maine. The sixth orbit was the payoff. It was 7 p.m. in Maine when the satellite raced toward the U.S. Calculations showed that it would pass close enough to Maine to hear a command...
...among the fastest inboard pleasure craft ever built; the 240-mile Around Long Island Marathon. Hoping to add to his long string of racing successes (Moppies won the 1961 Marathon, the last three Miami-Nassau powerboat races), Bertram was shooting for a new Marathon record of 5 hr. 45 min. when one of his twin 310-h.p. MerCruiser outdrive engines failed halfway around. Eventual winner in the handicap race: August Nigel's 17-ft. outboard-powered runabout, at an average speed of 33 m.p.h. for the trip...
...ones: he lost twice in the finals at Wimbledon, twice more at Forest Hills. But this year The Rocket is finally off the pad. He swept the Australian and French singles titles, and on Wimbledon's famed center court last week he needed only 53 min. to crush his unseeded countryman Martin Mulligan, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1, for his third national championship of the year. Only the U.S. championship at Forest Hills in September stands between Laver and a "grand slam" of amateur tennis' four top tournaments, a feat accomplished only once before...