Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain freedom of movement. Although NASA experts figured that the odds against White being punctured by high-velocity micrometeor in space were about 10,000 to 1, they nevertheless blasted White's suit over and over again with splinters of plastic fired at 25,000 ft. per sec. In those tests, the suit held...
Watching It Go. Gemini 4's ascent went precisely according to plan: accelerating to 17,500 m.p.h., the spacecraft entered into an orbit that took it 175 miles high at apogee, 100 miles high at perigee. At 6 min. 6 sec. from liftoff, Command Pilot McDivitt set off a string of explosive bolts that set the capsule free from its second-stage booster. The booster dropped loose...
Payday. It was nothing of the kind. Referee Walcott stopped the fight at 2 min. 12 sec.-which would make it only the seventh fastest. That was the least of the problems. Most of the fans in the arena had not seen the knockout punch; neither had the 500,000 others watching on closed-circuit TV. "Fix! Fix! Fix!" they chanted. "Fake! Fake! Fake!" At ringside, Joe Louis conceded that Clay had landed a right, "but it wasn't no good." Snapped Canadian Heavyweight George Chuvalo: "It's a phony, a real phony." Even Cassius was confused...
...Harvard: the Eastern Sprint Rowing Championship, for the second straight year; at Worcester, Mass. Battling 10-m.p.h. headwinds, the smooth-stroking Crimson varsity, unbeaten in college competition since 1963, easily outdistanced runner-up Cornell by 9.6 sec...
...growing army of creditors and unable for once to raise the money to pay them off, Bill Zeckendorf last week agreed in federal court to join rather than fight Marine Midland's petition, promised to cooperate in reorganizing Webb & Knapp's $69.7 million complex. The SEC lifted its ban on trading in Webb & Knapp stock, but an American Stock Exchange ban still stands...