Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plymouth's Road Runner, a stripped-down version of the Satellite, which, with the addition of the dome-shaped 426-cu.-in. "Hemi" engine,* covers the quarter mile in a blistering 13.5 sec. from a standing start, hits a top speed of 107 m.p.h. "Beep-beep" goes the horn, duplicating the sound made by the cartoon character, as a warning to slowpokes that the Road Runner is on its way. Cost...
...slalom. Next, in the Arlberg-Kandahar at Chamonix, she won the downhill, slalom and combined trophies. When the tour moved to the U.S., she won all three events at Aspen, Colo. slalom, giant slalom and downhill beating France's Marielle Goitschel by a 1.67-sec. margin in the giant slalom...
...weeks ago at Sun Valley, she did it again, another triple, including a 2.97-sec. downhill win over another French star, Isabelle...
...general practice of court members is to disqualify themselves from anything smacking of conflict, but each justice decides for himself. No reason is given, but it is often clear. William Douglas, who had been chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, would not hear any SEC-related case for five years after going on the court. Potter Stewart would not take part in appeals coming from the Ohio Supreme Court when his father was one of its judges, and Tom Clark retired because he expected that the disqualification problem would become great after his son Ramsey became U.S. Attorney General...
...extends his legs way out ahead of him-and sometimes plops right back down on his fanny, spoiling the jump. But most often Beamon defies gravity and thrusts himself forward. No one can explain quite how. Nor do track buffs understand much else that Beamon does. A 9.5-sec. sprinter in the 100, he races through his approach at a speed generally considered too tiring for an all-out jump. And Beamon is still deciding how far to run before takeoff: he usually favors a run of 134 ft, but both his world records came off runs...