Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agility and endurance, Brutus Hamilton, coach of the U.S. Olympic team, compiled a list of what he considered to be the "ultimate" in track and field performances. No one, said Hamilton out of confidence based on long experience, would ever run the 100-yd. dash in less than 9.2 sec. or the mile in less than 3 min. 57.8 sec. No one would ever put the shot more than 62 ft., throw the discus more than 200 ft., do better than 7 ft. 1 in. in the high jump, 27 ft. in the long jump...
...there really are any absolutes in sport, they defy recognition-especially these days, when a 19-year-old college freshman has run a 3-min. 51.3-sec. mile, and a 6-ft. ¾in. high jumper has cleared a bar 17 in. above his own head. Sports records have always been perishable, but in the U.S. today the spoilage rate is enormous. Athletes have never been so skillful, competition has never been so tough, and the U.S. appetite for sport has never been so insatiable...
...Mono. Lou III, another 32-ft. Maritime powered by twin 427-h.p. MerCruisers and piloted by Florida's Odell Lewis, 34, who used to wrestle alligators for sport until it got too tame. Bounding along at an average 50 m.p.h., he finished in 12 hr. 36 min. 20 sec., just as darkness closed in on Grand Bahama. "I ain't afraid of alligators," he said, "but nothing is going to keep me out there on that ocean after dark...
...only other American present when the President got together with De Gaulle in a private room in the West German Bundestag for the first time after 31 troubled years. Well, persisted the newsmen, how would Okie describe the momentous event? "It was," he replied succinctly, "f/2 at 1/30 sec...
...Churchill Downs last week when the Derby winner turned out to be Proud Clarion, a 30-to-l shot that didn't even have a jockey 48 hours before the race. What's more, Proud Clarion ran the mile and a quarter in 2 min. 1/5 sec., third fastest time in history, only 1/5 sec. off the track record-and all in a steady downpour that turned the track...