Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President watched eight 6-52 crews run to their planes and get into the air in 7 min. 34 sec. After Kennedy sounded a Klaxon, five Voodoo crews were airborne in 2 min. 24 sec. The President saw F-104s hit target rockets with Sidewinder missiles, laughed as an ancient C-47, all souped up with JATO rockets, shot into the sky like a jet. He inspected a line of 33 different aircraft, from the X-15 to the B-52, ducked inside a security hangar for a look at supersecret weapons...
...winner's circle, the garland of roses from his third Kentucky Derby victory around his horse's head, Bill Hartack heard the time: 2 min. ⅔ sec., and a new record, a full second better than the old mark set by Whirlaway in 1951, with Eddie Arcaro aboard...
...waved to Mechanic Robinson in the pits. "Stirling is driving incredibly," reported the track announcer from his vantage point in a tower. "He's taking the corners faster than ever before." In a Lola, Britain's John Surtees sped to a new lap record of 1 min. 23.6 sec. Moss cut it to 1 min. 23.4 sec., then to 1 min. 23 sec., then 1 min. 22.6 sec., then 1 min. 22.4 sec.-each split second pushing him closer to the limit of adhesion. In Moss's pit, dockers exchanged glances, and tension killed conversation. Murmured...
...picture is too long (2 hr., 20 min.), but it is also incessantly exciting, occasionally witty (wife describes philandering husband: "He told me I was one in a million and I discovered he was telling the truth") and in its exposition of organized sadism comparatively subtle. All too often Hollywood's Gestapo agents are popeyed, fat-necked baby peelers. Seaton's monsters look the way monsters usually look - like everybody else...
Having zipped over the U.S. at 17,750 m.p.h. during his 17-orbit spin last August, Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov, decided it was time for a more leisurely look. Titov, whose 25-hr. 18-min. flight remains the world's record, requested a visa to attend an international space conference that opens in Washington next week. There he may get to meet a fellow space traveler, who is scheduled to talk about his own three-orbit flight: U.S. Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn...