Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sunday, May 10, Agca returned to Rome, checking in at the Pensione Isa, a colorless boardinghouse that is about a 15-min. walk from St. Peter's Square. It was there that police searched Room 31 and found Agca's Perugian student card, his false passport, an extra cartridge clip for the Browning and the letter in Turkish boasting of the Pope's death. In the familiar tones of 1979, it denounced "Russian and American imperialism" and made John Paul the scapegoat for both...
...shouting, "Go, Physty, go. You can do it." At last the whale was herded into the bay. Then, escorted by eleven boats it slowly headed out to sea. Two Coast Guard vessels followed it 4% miles into the Atlantic, watching it make three dives of about 3 min. apiece, blowing off its steamy breath each time. Then Physty was seen no more. It was the first time that a stranded sperm whale had ever been saved...
...sort out important issues," says Secretary of Agriculture John Block of his open-road hours as a long-distance runner. Ruminating and running, Block, 46, looked as cool as an Illinois-grown cucumber as he glided across the finish line of the 85th Boston Marathon in 3 hr. 6 min. 49 sec. Still, Block was well to the rear of Toshihiko Seko, 24, a compact Japanese import who set a U.S. marathon record of 2:09:26, and New Zealander Allison Roe, 24, who came from down under and well back in the pack of 6,845 runners...
...first screening of Heaven's Gate. The critics had praised Cimino's pictorial and political extravagances in The Deer Hunter; here he was describing another romantic triangle tested in time of war. It had taken him two years and $36 million to make his 3-hr. 40-min. western, so they'd better eat all of it. They didn't: the critics were outraged by the expenditure of all that time, talent, money and solemnity on a story that Zane Grey could have told in 30 pages and John Ford shown in 30 minutes. They should...
...over till it's over," Yogi Berra once remarked of baseball games. And this one isn't over yet. After 8 hr. 7 min. and 32 innings, the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox of the International League's Class AAA set the record for the longest game in the history of organized baseball, in both innings played and time elapsed. Suspended at 4:07 Easter Sunday morning with the score tied 2-2, the game will resume June 23. Of the original crowd of 1,740 fans only 47 were still on hand...