Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DASHES: Villanova's chunky Frank Budd, world-record holder (9.2 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash and undefeated at that distance in two years. But in the Walnut Meet, closely pressed by Florida A. & M.'s 19-year-old Robert Hayes, Budd tore a thigh muscle and pulled up lame. But with Hayes (who clocked a sizzling 9.3 sec. at the nationals) running in the 100 meters, Paul Drayton (who turned in a record-tying 20.5 sec. for 220 yds. around a turn) racing in the 200 meters, and Ulis Williams (whose 45.8 sec...
Time for both: 13.4 sec., tying the meet record. Prospect: another U.S. sweep...
...Short sellers bet that the market will go lower by borrowing stock and selling it at the current price; their hope is to repay the borrowed stock with shares bought later at a lower price. Short selling is a tricky business usually left to professionals, and the SEC last week released figures showing that New York Stock Exchange member firms have, in fact, been heavy short sellers ever since Blue Monday. But lately the pros have been joined in their short selling by hordes of small investors who, disregarding their brokers' warnings, think this is the only...
...Reach. At week's end. still unsure just how much Eddy Gilbert's checks actually added up to, Bruce officials prepared to start civil suit against him for recovery of the money (Chairman Edwin Bruce stepped back in as president of the company). Both the SEC and the New York County Fraud Bureau were investigating the tattered Gilbert empire to see whether Gilbert's manipulations added up to a criminal offense...
...engine suddenly dropped a load of oil and conked out-McLaren spurted ahead. The Ferrari mechanics flashed "Faster!" at Phil Hill, and Phil desperately pushed his accelerator to the floor. Turning his Ferrari furiously around the tight turns, he began to cut into McLaren's 15-sec. lead...