Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meters through binoculars. A superb boat in light air, Weatherly was already the commanding favorite. Deftly, Mosbacher beat Ted Hood to the start, had a three-length lead crossing the line. He increased the margin until at the finish Weatherly was 13 boat lengths and 1 min. 26 sec. in front...
...breezes (5-8 knots), Mosbacher clearly had the better boat. On the first leg, Weatherly opened up a lead of more than six minutes, and Hood was only able to nibble at it the rest of the way. At the finish line, Weatherly was a crushing 4 min. 41 sec. ahead...
...third race was even more devastating. This time Weatherly won by 5 min. 39 sec., and that was it. Though America's Cup officials had until Sept. 8 to decide, there was little use waiting any longer. They announced that Weatherly and Bus Mosbacher had been chosen as the U.S. defender. Said Mosbacher: "I'm delighted, simply delighted...
...says, "and try not to waver." Last week Beatty's flying feet carried him closer than ever before to his elusive goal: the fastest mile in history. Before a crowd of 8,000 in Helsinki's Olympic Stadium, Jim Beatty ran the mile in 3 min. 56.3 sec., best time ever recorded by an American, and just 1.9 seconds off the world record set last January by New Zealand's Peter Snell...
...most notorious compositions is 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds, which requires a pianist to sit in silence at the keyboard for 4 min. 33 sec., staring at a stop watch before he departs the stage without striking a note...