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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roar & a Crackle. Its eight booster engines spitting a 150-ft. tail of flame, Saturn 1B burned for 2 min. 26 sec., at which point it was 35 miles up and moving at 5,400 m.p.h. Next came the tricky second stage, a single 225,000-lb.-thrust engine powered by an exotic combination of liquid oxygen (lox) and liquid hydrogen (LH2). While lox boils off at a difficult -290° F., LH2 boils at -423° F., thus requires extreme pressurization to keep cool. Moreover, in weightless space, LH2, like mercury, tends to gather into a ball or spin...
Miss Barnes also won first place at a WISC Slalom Race held at Intervale mountain, the day before. This race was conducted on an individual, not a team basis. Miss Barnes's time was 95.4 sec.; the next best Radcliffe time was turned in by the famous Miss Waterston, who finished third with...
...visit to Hialeah, he ran into Chuck Parke, trainer of a string of thoroughbreds owned by Florida Businessman Fred Hooper. "I knew he was great the first time I put him on a horse," recalls Parke. "I told him to breeze a colt five furlongs in 1 min. 2 sec., and when I looked at my watch I couldn't believe it. It read exactly 1 min. 2 sec." Hooper quickly signed up Baeza as contract jockey for his stable...
Miles and Co-Driver Lloyd Ruby to cover each lap in exactly 2 min. 4 sec., averaging 110 m.p.h., while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
...somebody may break 4 min. 15 sec. in the mile. But don't count on it: the way the indoor-track season is going, Jesse Owens could prob ably come out of retirement and win two events a night. The best shotputter in the U.S. at the moment is a 34-year-old bank vice president who can't get within 2 ft. of the world's record. The best two-milers include an Arizona sci ence teacher and a Massachusetts busi nessman. And the 4-min. 15-sec. mile is no exaggeration: that is what...