Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crew racing, Vesper knocked off Harvard, the best college crew in the U.S. In the finals, to determine the best crew in the world, it was Ratzeburg against Vesper. Ratzeburg led all the way, finished half a length ahead, set a new Henley record of 6 min. 16 sec. for the one-mile and 550-yd. course...
...unpredictably exciting the internal combustion engine can be. After last week's British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Jim Clark (TIME, cover, July 9) has had just about all the excitement he can stand. There he was in his little green Lotus, leading Graham Hill by a comfortable 35 sec., with the race four-fifths over. Coming out of a bend, Clark stepped on the accelerator. Gasp. Cough...
...B.R.M. pit crew heard the rough engine too. Graham caught their frantic signals, grimly poured it on. Drifting through the corners as tightly as possible, slipstreaming other cars to gain momentum before he passed, Hill began to eat into Clark's lead at the rate of 3 sec. or more a lap. Clark knew Hill was coming; he kept glancing over his shoulder, ducking back to fiddle with his controls, trying to coax some response out of his sputtering engine...
...Exchange Commission has charged that Lamont took advantage of his insider's information (TIME, April 30). That is a damaging accusation against the son of J. P. Morgan's late partner, Thomas W. Lamont, and a prominent Wall Street personality in his own right. In addition, the SEC seeks to have Lamont "make restitution" to the shareholders from whom Morgan Guaranty bought its stock-that is, pay them what they would have earned had they held on longer. A U.S. district court would assess the actual amount...
...answer contends that Morgan Guaranty's purchasers "were affected at various times from approximately 10:54 a.m. to approximately 10:59 a.m." The SEC suit charges that a Dow Jones news service bulletin "at or about" 10:55 a.m. was "the first official public announcement by ... Texas Gulf of the significance of the ... discovery...