Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indoors, U.S. athletes have produced a 16-ft. pole vault, a 64-ft. shot-put, a sub-4-min. mile. Last week, as the trackmen started moving from indoor boards to outdoor cinders, Negro Sprinter Francis Joseph Budd, 22, prepared an assault on the sturdiest barrier of all: 9 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
Since the SEC began probing Wall Street ten months ago, the hot glare of unfavorable publicity has focused almost entirely on the American Stock Exchange (TIME, May 26 et seq.). Last week the spotlight abruptly swung to the Amex's stern older brother, the New York Stock Exchange. After three weeks of deliberation, a federal grand jury indicted J. (for James) Truman Bidwell, 58, chairman of the board of governors of the Exchange, on the charge that he had "willfully and knowingly" evaded payment of $55,808.83 in income taxes for 1956-57. Within minutes of the announcement, Bidwell...
...fractions of a second that he was unable to make up. The new "Top Eliminator": California's Jim Nelson, 34, a mechanic who has been racing dragsters since 1948, has never before won a major competition. Nelson's winning time for the quarter-mile sprint was 8.7 sec., and his gold-and-red, Dodge-powered Dragmaster Dart was clocked through the trap at a whistling 170 m.p.h...
...Hayes played halfback on A. & M.'s undefeated 1961 football team, was "out of shape" when he showed up in Miami for his first outdoor track meet of the season. Running into a 4½-m.p.h. wind. Hayes streaked 100 yds. in 9.2 sec., equaling the world record held by Villanova's Frank Budd. "I was sure surprised when they told me," said Hayes...
...month after he had stamped himself as the world's fastest miler, with a 3-min. 54.4-sec. clocking at Wanganui, New Zealand, light-footed Peter Snell (TIME, Feb. 9) also proved himself a man of his word. Promising to entertain his Auckland neighbors with a sub-4-min. mile, Snell sped across the tape in 3 min. 56.8 sec...