Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only enough to slow his sled by a fraction. Toes up once more, he skittered under a railroad bridge past nasty little bends called Scylla and Charybdis. At the finish line he was traveling 90 m.p.h. Bibbia's time for the 1,320-yd. dive: a winning 57.7 sec...
GENERAL ANILINE & FILM, richest enemy firm seized by U.S. in World War II, is on the block. SEC accepted the Justice Department's registration statement for sale to private U.S. iavestors of 80% of stock in $160 million company. Department hopes to get rid of its holdings despite suits by 1,500 foreign shareholders to block sale...
...After equaling the world's indoor record for the 60-yd. dash (6.1 sec.) in a semifinal heat, Olympian Ira Murchison nosed out the Army's Ken Kave in the finals in 6.2 sec...
...Getting off his blocks with astonishing speed for so hefty a performer, Olympic Decathlon Champion Milt Campbell inched past Olympic Champion Lee Calhoun and set a new indoor record (7 sec.) for the 60-yd. hurdles...
...Navigating with just the kind of seamanlike skill his grey-hulled, centerboard yawl Finisterre deserved, Skipper Carleton Mitchell logged a corrected time of 28 hr. 14 min. 39 sec. to win the 184-mile sail from Miami to Nassau, B.W.I. Victor in 25 of the 40 races he has entered, Skipper Mitchell decided to ease off the wind, announced that after one more effort he will refrain from racing for a while...