Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is called The Bed-Sitting-Room, and it starts at the end of World War III. "It was the only time available -everything else was booked," explains one of its authors. The war lasted 2 min. 28 sec., with 14 million British casualties...
...Paulo, Brazil, U.S. swimmers won 19 of 20 events, U.S. wrestlers swept eight of eight, U.S. weightlifters six of seven. Latin American track fans saw their first 16-ft. vault when Dave Tork soared over the crossbar at 16 ft. ¾ in. Balding Pete McArdle chopped 65.1 sec. off the Games record for 10,000 meters, and Broadjumper Ralph Boston leaped 26 ft. 7¼ in. Jaunty Jim Beatty, who had not lost a race in two years, managed to get beaten in the 1,500 meters-but it was his U.S. teammate, Jim Grelle, who did it. By week...
...MILE RELAY. Before they took to the track at Walnut for the one-mile relay, four University of Arizona undergraduates got a gift: an autographed baton, the same one that had been carried by the U.S. Olympic relay team in 1960 when it clocked a record 3 min. 5.6 sec. Paced by Sophomore Henry Carr, who flashed through his 440-yd. leg in 45.1 sec., the Arizonans promptly ran the mile in 3 min. 4.5 sec...
Twice the Lakers closed to within one point; each time the inspired Celtics held them off. Now there were only 2 min. 20 sec. left. The score was Boston 104, Los Angeles 102. and the Lakers had the ball. At midcourt, Celtic Forward Tommy Heinsohn, 28, waited as West dribbled the ball up the floor. Heinsohn's weak left knee, encased in a truss, felt ready to give way. "I was so tired," he said later, "that I didn't think I could stand, let alone run. I decided to gamble. Even if I fell down and died...
...Miss It! Miss It!" That brilliant steal should have taken the heart out of Los Angeles. But no. The teams traded baskets, and then, with 43 sec. left, the Lakers' Dick Barnett flipped a spectacular reverse-spin shot into the basket and was fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley...