Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearby Arden Hills Swim Club. Not taking kindly to defeat, Arnold Spitz promptly turned his young son over to Arden Hills Coach Sherman Chavoor, who has been Mark's mentor?officially and unofficially?ever since. The boy learned fast. At age ten he set his first U.S. record?31 sec. in the 50-yd. butterfly?a record that still stands today for the nine-ten age group...
...fund's own shares to the public. But the New York Stock Exchange banned such "give-ups" late in 1968. Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposes that the funds stop channeling their stock-trading business to the brokers who do best at selling fund shares. The SEC wants to remove any temptation for a broker to pressure his customers into buying fund shares so that the broker can collect juicy stock-trading business from the funds...
...boot. Or perhaps stocky Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa of the Malagasy Republic. Borzov remains unbeaten, but at the trials for the U.S. team last month, two qualifiers exploded past his best time. Slim, goateed Eddie Hart and Reynaud ("Sugar Rey") Robinson both equaled the world record of 9.9 sec...
Many astronomers took a dim view of the event, partly because most sites for observing totality were inaccessible, partly because they expected heavy cloud cover to prevail in high latitudes, and also because nowhere did totality last longer than 2 min. 35.6 sec. Moreover, scientists are divided as to the value of studying eclipses. The Young Turks in the field say condescendingly that it's an old man's game, an occasion for repeating familiar experiments. The old hands retort that there is still much that can best be learned during eclipses. Even if they are repeating experiments...
...film advancement, which has had to be done manually (and sometimes faultily) in all previous models. The most unreal thing about the SX-70 is its film, which will cost no more than current Polaroid color film (about 45? per picture). Flicking out of the camera only 1.2 sec. after exposure, the pictures at first are a mass of opaque blue-gray, then slowly develop within four minutes in full view of the photographer. Sheathed in unscratchable plastic and backed by a thin coating of titanium, they are dry to the touch even while developing, in welcome contrast...