Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Only 35 sec. were left on the clock. The Boston Bruins benched their goalie, sent an extra forward into the game, mounted a desperate attack. But a Chicago player picked off the puck and passed it to a burly blond with No. 9 on the back of his Black Hawks uniform. Gathering it in at full speed, Bobby Hull rocketed down the rink. At the blue line, a Boston defenseman unlimbered a vicious body check. Almost casually, Hull bounced the defenseman aside, leaned forward, and flicked the puck straight into the Boston net. The red light flashed, the buzzer rang...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 27: a wind-whipped, three-mile race at Melbourne's Olympic Park, in the world-record time of 13 min. 7.6 sec.-clipping 2.4 sec. off the old mark held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg, who trailed Clarke through the tape by 150 yds. Peter Snell failed in his attempt to break his own world record for the mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.), still clocked 3 min. 57.6 sec.-the eleventh time the muscular New Zealander has cracked...
Died. Bobby Marshman, 28, cool, articulate racing driver who had a 27-sec. lead in the early laps of the Indianapolis 500 last May when he was forced out by mechanical difficulties, stoically predicted: "I'll get lucky one day-just you wait and see"; of burns suffered two weeks ago on a Phoenix test track when his Lotus-Ford crashed at 115 m.p.h. and exploded; in San Antonio...
...chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It was a shrewd choice. Kennedy knew his way around the exchanges and could not be bluffed; he was also eager to do a good job. Not only did he vigorously administer a rather clumsily written law; he reconciled business to the SEC and encouraged new capital financing in the depth of the Depression...
...went to desperate work A run failed, two passes fell incomplete. Finally, on fourth down, chased by Irish blitzers, Fertig threw to Sherman, who skipped into the end zone for the TD that made it Southern Cal 20 Notre Dame 17. The clock read 1 min. 35 sec...