Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...track nor a team until five years ago. What's more, Track Coach Tom Williams, a onetime halfback with the Los Angeles Rams, gets only ten athletic scholarships a year. But he makes the most of what he has. Williams can field nine runners capable of cracking 10 sec. in the 100-yd. dash, a 174-ft. discus thrower, a 26-ft. broad jumper -and the best sprint relay team...
...winner's circle, the garland of roses from his fourth Derby victory around his horse's neck, Bill Hartack heard the time: 2 min. flat, and a new record, ⅛ sec. better than the old mark set by Decidedly in 1962-with Bill Hartack aboard...
...puzzles, Radio Astronomers Alex Smith and Thomas Carr of the University of Florida told the Physical Society, is posed by a brief question: What's happening on Jupiter? Radio signals that once came from the distant planet in regularly spaced bursts are now being received at 1.3-sec. longer intervals. "This is almost as surprising as if the city of Washington had begun to drift across the earth at the rate of ten degrees of longitude (530 miles) per year," said Dr. Smith...
...miles or so through pine forests when "it's dark, and peaceful, and beautiful." Vandendriessche was the defending champion; in 1963 he did not even arrive in Boston until the night before the race, still breezed to an easy victory in a record 2 hrs. 28 min. 58 sec. This time he lounged confidently around his hotel room while competitors were inspecting the course and plotting strategy. "I'll decide halfway through the race what I'm going to do," he said. On race day, Vandendriessche got up at 1 a.m. "Belgian time," he explained...
John W. Shelton '64 of Kirkland House and Harvard, Mass., finished first out of 38 contestants in the Outing Club's annual bicycle race to Wellesley College Saturday. Shelton took 35 min. 24 sec, to complete the 6 1/2-mile course...