Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the ripening sunshine of Brazilian spring, Edward Mortimer Gilbert, 38, flew home last week to weather the wintry discontent of U.S. justice. He seemed to be charged with everything except starting the Korean war: 15 federal fraud charges of, among other things, making a false SEC report and misappropriating $1,953,000 of the funds of the E. L. Bruce Co., Inc., the lumber milling giant that he had bossed before fleeing last June; twelve New York State charges of grand larceny; a U.S. tax lien amounting to $3,500,000. The erstwhile timber wolf of Wall Street faced...
...Kevin Berry, 17-year-old Aussie swimming star: the 110-yd. and 220-yd. butterfly at the Melbourne trials for the British Empire Games, both in world record time. All told, Berry got credit for three new world records: his 2-min. 9.7-sec. clocking in the 220-yd. butterfly also bettered the mark for 200 meters. Another record breaker: 25-year-old Dawn Fraser, dean of Aussie women swimmers, who became the first woman to swim the 110-yd. freestyle in less than 1 min. Her time -59.9 sec.-also smashed the world record for 100 meters...
...Almost unnoticed by betters, who let him go off at 20-1, Beau Purple fought off Kelso's challenge to win by two lengths. Carry Back finished a badly beaten fifth. Beau Purple's time for the 1½-mi. race-2 min. 28 3/5 sec.-broke the track record, and his winner's purse of $74,620 ran his 1962 earnings...
...Park, for an unprecedented third year in a row. Ridden by Jockey Ismael Valenzuela, who never had to use his whip, Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding breezed to an easy ten-length victory, covered the two miles in 3 min. 19-4/5 sec.-breaking Nashua's track record. Kelso's $70,785 winner's purse ran his lifetime earnings to $938,380-sixth highest total in U.S. racing history, and the all-time high for a gelding...
...UMass runner considered one of the best in the East, Bob Brouillet, placed first with a time of 25 min., 15 sec...