Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunge in. They spend hour after hour training muscles, learning survival techniques, studying mountain-craft, developing leadership. In between come big endurance tests: a five-day climb in windswept high country, a six-mile run up and down mountains (best boy's time so far: 38 min. 10 sec.), a 50-mile hike to test speed and accuracy over a specified route, a 48-hour session alone in the woods without food, which becomes a lesson in the edible qualities of roots, berries, frogs and rabbits...
...track and field stars dominated the meet. Husky Harold Connolly whirled the hammer 231 ft. 10 in., breaking his own world record by 1 ft. 1½ in. Miler Jim Beatty ran away from his competition to win the 1,500 meters by 8 yds. in 3 min. 39.9 sec. Discus Star Al Oerter and Broad Jumper Ralph Boston expected tough competition, but had no trouble handling their Russian rivals...
...obstacle 810-yd. course, Connecticut's Bill Steinkraus, top U.S. equestrian and captain of the 1960 Olympic team that won a silver medal in jumping, easily won London's Country Life and Riding Cup competition at White City Stadium. Steinkraus toured the course in 90.6 sec., beat Britain's George Hobbs by 2.7 sec...
...slow (relatively) but sure average speed of 101.9 m.p.h. while faster cars broke down and dropped out. - Tennessee State's Wilma Rudolph Ward, lithe triple gold-medal winner at the 1960 Olympics; the 100-yd. dash at the women's National A.A.U. championships; in 10.8 sec., only .1 sec. off her own meet record...
...beat. As skipper of Weatherly, a good, but never before great yacht, Mosbacher drove her to four brilliant victories in a row against the roughest competition U.S. yachting could offer. Eventually, he lost to Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, and then, by a close 43 sec., to Nefertiti, the highly touted newcomer designed by Marblehead Sailmaker Ted Hood. But before that he had humbled Columbia once, Easterner twice, and soundly trounced Nefertiti by 5 min. 43 sec...