Word: sec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse racing, the Triple Crown? Last week a record crowd of 81,036 came to find out, as the big (16.1 hands) copper colt went to the post in the $125,000 Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown. A fleet, frantic 2 min. 30.2 sec. later, the fans at Belmont and millions more watching on TV in the U.S. and Venezuela had the answer...
...Wednesday he told me that he would win the Preakness." Win he did. Rounding the final turn, Avila let Cañonero have his head, and the horse swept by Eastern Fleet and won going away. Cañonero's winning time of 1 min. 54 sec. clipped three-fifths of a second off the old Preakness record set by Nashua...
...center of gravity has tipped ever westward. Census results show it moving across the map like flowing lava: in 1870 east of Cincinnati, in 1900 near Indianapolis, in 1940 on the Indiana-Illinois line. Today, the computers calculate, the population center lies at lat. 38° 27 min. 47 sec. N., and long. 89° 42 min. 22 sec. W. That puts it in the middle of one of Farmer Lawrence Friederich's fields outside of Mascoutah, Ill., just southeast of St. Louis...
...against each other in 1967, Jim Ryun of the University of Kansas was the world's premier miler and Marty Liquori was a 17-year-old hotshot out of Essex Catholic High in Newark, N.J. At the A.A.U. championships that year, Liquori streaked home in 3 min. 59.8 sec. to shatter the four-minute barrier for the first time in his career. The crowd cheered-but not for Marty. He finished seventh, a full 70 yds. behind Ryun, who set a new-and still unbroken-world record of 3 min. 51.1 sec. for the mile. Last week...
Along with the rest of the economy, profits in the publishing industry generally went down last year, but the status of the Washington Post Co.-one of the few major publishers in the field still under full family control-has long been a matter of speculation. Last week an SEC registration for a public stock offering disclosed that the financial story told in the private ledgers of the firm was no different from that in the public reports of other corporations: 1970 was a bad year...