Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said Toronto Psychiatrist Jon Ennis, a passenger on the flight: "Little old ladies trying to get to the lavatories had to push through the crowd around the casino." Alas, no one was able to try his luck at the machines for long, and not just because of the 15-min. time limit for each player. The slots, made mainly of plastic to get their weight down to 36 Ibs., vs. 150 for the standard slot, broke down eight hours into the 23-hr, flight. S.A. reluctantly had to close down casino...
...accommodations are now available even in New York City. Most are bedrooms in apartments in such diverse sites as the loft quarter of SoHo and Roosevelt Island in the East River, which is reached from midtown Manhattan by way of a scenic 3½-min. tram ride. Urban Ventures Inc., a booking service for New York B & Bs, has about 120 listings, nearly all in Manhattan. The most desirable rooms are also centrally located. "What they really want," jokes Mary McAulay, Urban Ventures' co-owner, "is a room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Rates for New York...
...Steve Ovett, 25, and Sebastian Coe, 24, once more took turns shooting down one another's world records. In Zurich on Aug. 19, Coe reclaimed his record (set in 1979 and broken by Ovett in 1980), taking 27/100 sec. off the mark with a time of 3 min. 48.53 sec. Exactly a week later, Ovett announced that he wanted to go after the new record at a meet in Koblenz, West Germany. No mile event had been scheduled-its metric near equivalent, the 1,500-meter run, was on the Koblenz menu-but meet organizers quickly obliged Ovett...
...this?" Just two days after Ovett exacted his revenge, Coe returned to the track, this time in Brussels. With his familiar Zurich "rabbit," American Tom Byers, setting the pace, Coe took more than a full second off Ovett's newborn mark, cutting through the balmy night in 3 min. 47.33 sec. As he had done in Zurich, Coe unleashed a terrific closing kick, taking the lead with some 500 meters (547 yds.) left. When it was over, Coe paid tribute to his obliging pacesetter. Said he: "I credit much of my success tonight to Byers...
Though he coyly insisted that Ovett's new mark had "nothing to do" with his effort, Coe had announced before the race that he hoped to finish in a record 3 min. 47.5 sec. And earlier in the day he had huddled with Byers to discuss strategy. As for Ovett, Coe said: "I'm very sorry he wasn't here tonight. The race certainly would have been faster with...