Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would keep him from suffering mild electric shocks. Over Australia and over the Pacific, the lights appeared as scheduled, and Enos, performing properly, got no shocks. He was reported by Mexico at 11:34 and by Canaveral at 11:41. He completed his first orbit in one hour, 28.5 min. His heartbeat (105-120), respiration (20-25) and temperature (98°) were considered normal. So far the flight was perfect...
...picture is much too long (2 hr. 15 min.), but it has strength as well as length. Cameraman Gene Shufton has artfully preserved what Actor Gleason calls "the dirty antiseptic look of poolrooms-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The pool-shooting scenes are magnificently staged -the principals were coached by Willie Mosconi, top-ranking pool player in the U.S.-and tellingly edited by Director Robert Rossen (They Came to Cordura). The suspense in the first big game will surely bring sweat to any palm that...
...Mile Run. The U.S. has only two better-than-four-minute milers: Oregon's rangy Dyrol Burleson, who shaved .2 sec. from Herb Elliott's American record with a 3:57.6-min. mile last month, and stubby Jim Beatty of Santa Clara (Calif.) Youth Village, whose best effort is 3:58. Each time the two have met, Beatty has won. Betting is high that they may soon push each other close to Australian Elliott's world record...
...After burning out his competition with two blazing, 59-sec. middle laps, the University of Oregon's Dyrol Burleson slipped to 59.4 sec. in the final lap, still managed a 3-min. 57.6-sec. mile at Eugene, Ore.-fastest ever by a U.S. miler. Said Burleson afterward: "I think I could have cut three seconds off the last lap if I'd had someone to hang on to. When I get ahead, I get lazy...
...airmen hung up another speed record last week when an Air Force four-jet B58 Hustler bomber reached Paris exactly 3 hr. 19 min. 41 sec. after passing over Roosevelt Field, L.I. (now a shopping center), where Charles Augustus Lindbergh started his famed solo transatlantic flight 34 years ago. The Hustler's speed (average: 1,050 m.p.h.) was nearly ten times as fast as Lindbergh's, who covered the 3,600-mile distance in 33 hr. 29 min. 30 sec. But Lindbergh's single-engined (223 h.p.) ship went all the way on one filling...