Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Savannah Jr.: the $419,460 All-American Futurity for quarter horses, richest horse race in the world; at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. A 12-1 long shot, Savannah Jr. sped 400 yds. "through the mud in 20.3 sec. to score an easy 21-length victory, earn $192,730 -or roughly $10,000 per sec...
...build a 2.5-mile Lower Manhattan crosstown expressway; estimated cost: $100 million a mile). In San Francisco, where the city board of planners have refused since 1958 to allow any freeways to be built, the 75-mile Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) automated system of trains running at 90-sec. intervals is to be completed in 1971. Cost: $13 million a mile...
...first horse that wins two heats. So the race went into overtime-a trot-off among the three heat winners. Before the final, Cameron offered Dancer the seat in Egyptian Candor's sulky. Stanley refused, and Cameron went on to win by a head in 2 min. 10.2 sec.-second slowest time in Hambletonian history. "The best horse didn't win," Cameron said later. "Noble Victory was the best horse." Try and tell that to Rachel Dancer, whose winner's share of the $122,245 purse-$59,900-put her one up on her husband...
...numbers into the computer, it compares them with the stored list. When it "hits" a wanted number, a bell rings, the number is automatically typed out, and the teletypist radios ahead to a second prowl car parked some 900 ft. down the road. The whole thing takes about 7 sec.-ample time for the second car to swoop on the prey...
...meter freestyle at the A.A.U. meet, her competitors included the defending world-record holder (at 4 min. 39.5 sec.) Marilyn Ramenofsky, and Patty Caretto who only two days before had set a new world mark for 1,500 meters. For the first 300 meters, it was strictly a two-girl race-with Martha third. Then she began to sprint, flashed past Ramenofsky, overhauled Caretto in the last lap, and drew out to win by 2.5 sec. Her time: a record-smashing 4 min. 39.2 sec. Next day, just to prove it was no fluke, Martha also won the 200-meter...