Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alarm Clock. When Hunt and crew had a rat sleeping peacefully, they recorded its heartbeats on an electrocardiograph (300-350 beats per min.). Then they squirted it with a beam of silent, invisible, 250,000-volt X rays. In about 12 sec., the rat woke up, sometimes going into a violent "state of alarm." Its heartbeat would speed up too. But if the radiation continued for long, the rat would go to sleep again, like a human grown accustomed to a steady night-time sound...
...only when I feel like it," says Snell, and this year he is in a running mood. Despite his upset 800-meter victory over Belgium's Roger Moens in the 1960 Olympics, Snell was still a virtual unknown last January, when he set out to run a sub4 min. mile for the first time. Against lackluster competition, over a slow grass track in the New Zealand town of Wanganui, he blazed through the mile in 3 min. 54.4 sec.-clipping a tenth of a second from Herb Elliott's 3∧-year-old world record. At first, trackmen...
Fortnight ago, Snell ran in the Los Angeles Coliseum Relays against two of the U.S.'s fleetest milers: Dyrol Burleson (best time: 3 min. 57.6 sec.) and Jim Grelle (3 min. 58.9 sec.). Burleson, who had beaten Snell twice before, was confident of victory, and for the first three-quarters of the race, it looked as though he might win. Snell was maintaining a 5-yd. lead, but the lanky Oregonian is well known for his finishing kick. With only an eighth of a mile to go, Snell lowered his head and started sprinting. By the time Burleson reacted...
...took off like a rocket," said Burleson later. "He just went whoosh." Snell broke the tape in 3 min. 56.1 sec.-the fastest mile ever run in the U.S. Astonished dockers timed his last 120 yds. in 13.4 sec.-the equivalent, approximately, of a 10-sec. 100-yd. dash. Said Snell: ""I was never in doubt I would...
...ocean course was placid and the race went to the swift, not the sturdy. The winner: Aokone, a light 25-ft. runabout powered by twin 280-h.p. Mercury engines and skippered by Florida's John Bakos. Aokone covered the 182-mile distance in a record 3 hr. 42 min. 20 sec., at an average speed of 49 m.p.h...