Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fair, Kansas Rancher Glenn Cun ningham, 52, world's greatest miler in the 1930s, took in the sights with his wife, their nine children, and an orphan boy whom he is caring for at his Cedar Point spread. Cunningham ran 20 races in less than 4 min. 10 sec., a time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said, and nominated one candidate for the feat: 14-year...
...three hours, cars race nose to tail, their drivers compelled to shift gears on an average of once every 10 sec. The racket of screaming engines echoes deafeningly off cliffs and building walls. The accidents are spectacular. One year a driver ended up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station, and in 1955 Italy's great Alberto Ascari drove his Lancia over the sea wall into the Mediterranean...
...winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early leader, Parnelli Jones-who earned the pole position with a dazzling qualifying speed of 150.370 m.p.h., first time anyone has lapped the 2½-mile track in less than 60 sec.-lost his brakes after 310 miles, wound up seventh. The winner: Indianapolis' own steady, careful Rodger Ward, who also won in 1958, averaged 140.292 m.p.h., enough to set a new race record and collect a well-earned total of $124,515 in prize money...
...gallant 2½ lengths. A well-beaten sixth: Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's five-year-old gelding Kelso, 1961's Horse of the Year and the 3-to-5 favorite at post time. Carry Back ran the mile in 1 min. 33 3/5 sec.-tying the track record. His $72,735 winner's purse boosted his life time earnings to $1,009,153, made him the fourth million-dollar horse (the others: Round Table, Nashua, Citation) in racing history...
Communist gains in Laos were diverting attention from encouraging first-quarter earnings reports. Investors were being frightened, another explanation went, by the SEC's investigation of the nation's securities markets-particularly by the recent public hearings in Washington, which, although temperately conducted, turned up evidence that not even the nation's most reputable brokerage houses are free of touting...