Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smallest boat. Ashby Harper, 65, an Albuquerque headmaster, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel. "I think my swim shows that there are plenty of things people can do when they are over 65," said Harper, who made the 30-mile swim in 13 hr. 52 min. As it turned out, Harper shared the chilly waters with Cindy Nicholas, 24, a Canadian lawyer who set a world record for the fastest two-way crossing: 18 hr. 55 min...
...team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick to the pillows. When they were pulled from the river 15 min. later, clear water miraculously began to drain from them, while each 8-oz. bag retained 8 lbs. of oil sludge. Says Peterson's Ben Benson: "We've been working with infrared detectors, 'super sucker' vacuums and high-speed skimmers. Now we're into chicken feathers...
...Schuster, $18.95), published the month On Golden Pond was released, has had 31 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list (No. 1 for 21 weeks). The book has become the focus for a baby conglomerate that mints money by marketing Fonda's exercise ideology. A 90-min. video cassette showing Fonda and the workout instructors performing the regimen retails for $59.95; a two-record album of mellow-rock exercises has made the Top 40; her Workout studios are now in Beverly Hills, Encino and San Francisco and will be opening up in other large cities...
...four nights a week, and from 2 to 3 a.m. on Friday, and a morning program preceding Today, from 6:30 to 7 a.m., and using Today's personnel. ABC countered with a 6-to-7-a.m. headline news show in repeating 15-min. cycles. Says NBC News President
...Westinghouse Group W, the country's largest non-network station group, have joined to offer their own 24-hour cable news headline service, Satellite News Channels, which started airing June 21. To date, however, SNC is less varied and ambitious than CNN. It offers three 18-min. newscasts an hour, plus 'quick regional news bulletins. SNC, like CNN2, is intended for brief sampling rather than the extended viewing sought by CNN; the new service is explicitly patterned after similarly repetitive all-news radio stations. SNC's ABC footage is limited to stories that do not feature network...