Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rode, fenced, shot, swam and ran his way to victory in the modern pentathlon, a quasi-military test of skill and stamina that many experts consider to be even more demanding than the decathlon. After four days of brutal competition, Perm ran 4,000 meters across country in 14 min. 25.7 sec. to edge Hungary's Andras Balczo for the gold medal by the thin margin of 11 points...
...France's Pierre Trentin, 24, a leatherworker from Créteil, a Paris suburb, was given "not a chance" to win the 1,000-meter cycling race by his own nation's sports newspaper, L'Equipe. From a standing start, he pedaled the distance in 1 min. 3.91 sec.-averaging 35 m.p.h.-to earn himself both the gold medal and a world record...
Fentress: Nixon's speeches are perfectly timed-30 to 35 min. With his lead in the polls, Nixon is conserving his energy and avoiding the fatigue that caused him to make mistakes in 1960. He usually gets to bed by midnight and takes weekends on the beach to preserve his suntan for the TV camera. That is an advantage for the press, too, of course...
...shutdown and separation of the first stage, and the ignition of the second stage into full view of the TV audience. Seconds later viewers also saw the dramatic jettisoning of the Apollo escape tower, which arced high above the spacecraft before plummeting back toward earth. Finally, about 10½ min. after launch, out of IGOR's range, Apollo 7, still attached to the second-stage Saturn 4B rocket, glided into an orbit 140 miles high at perigee and 174 miles at apogee -remarkably close to the programmed 142-by 176-mile orbit. "We're having a ball." Schirra...
...year's team is that Americans may well win all three. New York's Tom Farrell and Oregon's Wade Bell are top contenders for the 800 meters. They ran one-two at last month's Olympic trials, and Farrell's time of 1 min. 46.5 sec. should be enough to win if he can match it at Mexico City. George Young, a skinny, crew-cut schoolteacher from Arizona, is a solid threat to become the U.S.'s first gold-medal winner in the steeplechase since 1952. Bill Toomey, a 195-lb. muscleman from...