Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-year-old son of Tom Fool has started 28 races, won 24 and earned $1,347,744-ranking him third on the alltime moneywinning list behind Kelso ($1,977,896) and Round Table ($1,749,869). Last year Buckpasser set a world record of 1 min. 32 sec. for the mile, and ran away with the voting for Horse of the Year, a title he should retain in 1967 barring reinjury...
...flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified air rifle and pellets wadded with cottonlike propellant, the 6-ft. 3-in. Belgian squeezed off shots whose velocity was clocked at almost 1,500 ft. per sec., the speed of a conventional .22-caliber bullet. Hough was agog. "I couldn't believe it," he recalls. Hurrying back to his hotel room with Van Langenhoven's rifle and a supply of the propellant, he spent the evening enthusiastically peppering a thick telephone directory propped against the wall...
Cooler Turrets. Although Daisy intends to confine its output of V-L products to .22-caliber rifles and perhaps shotguns the military implications are obvious. Daisy engineers have already shot V-L bullets at speeds as high as 3,000 ft. per sec.-well within the performance range of high-powered conventional rifles. V-Ls can be fired chemically and electrically, as well as with hot-air jets, making them adaptable to a large variety of weapons systems. Elimination of cartridges would also solve a troublesome problem in tank turrets, where hot shell casings pile up quickly during combat...
Then there was Jim Ryun. Already the fastest miler in history at 3 min. 51.3 sec., the University of Kansas sophomore had little hope of beating that time last week. Nowadays, world mile records are nearly always the result of careful planning and coordination: human mechanical rabbits are employed to insure a fast early pace, and the whole operation is carefully monitored by coaches armed with timing charts and stop watches. But there were no rabbits at Bakersfield, and the pace was so slow on the first lap that Ryun reluctantly decided to do his own pacemaking. His time...
...entered one car at Spa. One was enough. Starting in the middle of the first row, he trailed Jimmy Clark's Lotus-Ford and Jackie Stewart's B.R.M. through the first 20 laps, then roared into the lead and pulled away to win by 63 sec. despite a balky, smoking engine. The victory earned Dan nine points toward the Grand Prix championship that he has never managed to win although he has tied for third and placed fourth in the final standings driving foreign cars. "It's a long season, and I don't want...