Word: mins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refueling, when they throttled back to less than 600 m.p.h. and dropped to 30,000 ft. to rendezvous with waiting tankers. By the time the racers had braked to a stop in Brooklyn, drag parachutes billowing behind, three had cracked the old transcontinental record of 3 hr. 5 min. 39.2 sec. set in 1957 by Air Force Lieut. Gustav Klatt in an RF-101 Voodoo jet. The winning time, posted by Lieut. Richard Gordon Jr. and Lieut, (j.g.) Bobbie Young: 2 hr. 47 min. In New Jersey and New York, angry householders complained that the sonic booms from the swift...
...packs cigarettes 17¾ min. 14 min...
Blue Cross, one person 49 min...
...Cool: the Gil Evans Orchestra (Impulse). The finest arranger in jazz puts some of his melodic and rhythmic tricks on display in five selections, including his own long (15-min.) La Nevada, and his arrangement of John Brooks's haunting Where Flamingos Fly. The moods vary, but the effect is always an intricate crosscurrent of sound stirring to restlessly shifting rhythms...
...breakdowns, of painful delays and wrecked plans, the U.S. Mercury man-in-space project had finally achieved its first objective: an American astronaut had been shot out of the earth's atmosphere and had returned alive. Shepard's trip, to be sure, had been brief (15 min.). Top speed of his capsule had been only 4,500 m.p.h., not significantly faster than the design speed of the U.S.'s piloted rocket plane X-15. Though his capsule had curved along its course with infinite precision, its ballistic trajectory could not be compared with the far more complicated...