Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEC has brought suit against the men and the Texas Gulf Sulfur Company--the company which owns the rich deposits and of which the men are either employees, officers, or directors. The SEC is asking that the company and the men be compelled to reimburse people who sold them Texas Gulf stock without knowledge of the ore discovery...
...synchronous satellite has disadvantages too. Its great altitude exacts a high price in launching effort, and its signals are weakened significantly by the distance they must travel. The radio waves traveling up and back at the speed of light take about .24 sec. to make the round trip. This would have no effect on TV programs, which move in only one direction at a time, but telephone talkers may be bothered by the extra half-second delay between question and answer...
Cutting his engines back to a cozy 5,200 r.p.m., Aronow sashayed over the glassy Bahama flats at a steady 55 knots, crossed the finish line in 3 hrs. 19 min. 36 sec.-slicing 45 sec. off the race record. "I could have made it in three hours flat," shrugged Aronow, "the sea was so calm." So calm, in fact, that 007 still showed the dirty footprints that somebody had left on her bow back in Miami. Even at 66 knots, 007 had not churned up enough spray to wet the deck...
...Yale's Don Schollander, 18: the 200-yd. freestyle in the national A.A.U. men's swimming championships at New Haven: in an American record time of 1 min. 41.7 sec., to continue his winning ways after collecting four gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Another teenager, Greg Buckingham, upset Veteran Roy Saari in the 400-yd. individual medley, but Saari consoled himself with a first in the 1,650-yd. freestyle...
...Oxford: a four-length victory over Cambridge in the 111th Dark Blue-Light Blue crew race down the Thames, stroking the 41-mile course in 18 min. 7 sec. Powered by four sturdy Yanks, all former Yalemen studying at Oxford, the Darks opened up two lengths after the first mile, pulled steadily away for their 49th...