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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third orbit and when and where to bring him to earth if further trouble developed. Sitting in the Mercury Control Center, Kraft was fed a steady stream of monitored data about the condition of Glenn and the capsule, plus the prediction, cranked out by computers every 1½ sec. from Greenbelt, Md., of where Friendship 7 would land if the flight had to be aborted at any given time. Last November, when the capsule carrying Enos, the space chimp, ran into trouble on the second of three planned orbits, Chris Kraft needed just five seconds to decide to abort...
...weight. Gear and axle ratios were changed for more "dig," and bodies were "channeled" or cut down to lower the center of gravity. Such rebuilding is costly ($1,500 to $10,000), but the results are spectacular: speeds up to 175 m.p.h.; quarter-mile sprints in less than 9 sec...
...three-quarter mark, the clock was only .3 sec. behind Beatty's world record time. But an anxious over-the-shoulder look was a mistake; Beatty breasted the tape at 4:00.9, 10 yds. ahead of O'Hara...
...study in contrasts. Tense and ready, Ron Delany, 26, is a throwback to Don Gehrmann: undefeated in 34 straight indoor miles, he pays no attention to the clock, runs only fast enough to win, and has yet to demonstrate his full potential (his best indoor time: 4 min. 1.4 sec.). Sturdy and strong, Peter Snell, 23, is probably the finest natural runner in the world; in the words of Coach Igloi, he is a "stamina-speed" runner, who usually kills off his opposition by setting a blinding pace. Within the past month, Snell has set four world records, at distances...
...Snells outdoor records: 800 meters (1 min. 44.3 sec.), 880 yds. (1 min. 45.1 sec.), one mile (3 min. 54.4 sec.). Indoors: 1,000 yds. (2 min. 6 sec...