Word: sec
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eliot House Committee, Chairman B.C.? Board of Dir. Model U N Under Sec General Radcliffe Choral Society Asst Mgr. Harvard Men's Varsity Hockey...
When the bell rang for the 14th round, Leonard came out of his corner like a shot, racing over to tag Hearns with a huge left hook before the Hit Man could step out of his path. After 1 min. 45 sec. of blows that Hearns was powerless to return, Referee Pearl stopped the fight. Hearns, who had been ahead on points with all three judges at that moment, looked on incredulously. "I thought I was in pretty much control," he protested later. Said Angelo Dundee, Leonard's manager: "Tommy Hearns was out of it. He didn...
...special began as a single 60-sec. commercial and, with NBC's encouragement, just grew. It is a pastiche of folksy, campfire sing-alongs; rafter-shaking black church music; gritty rapping between Burt Reynolds and streetwise teens; and documentary footage about the making of the commercials and the special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence...
Though he coyly insisted that Ovett's new mark had "nothing to do" with his effort, Coe had announced before the race that he hoped to finish in a record 3 min. 47.5 sec. And earlier in the day he had huddled with Byers to discuss strategy. As for Ovett, Coe said: "I'm very sorry he wasn't here tonight. The race certainly would have been faster with...
...themselves. The origin of their mutual dislike is obscure, but its effect on the sport is not. New records for the mile were a rarity in the years after Roger Bannister broke the 4 min. barrier in 1954. American Jim Ryun's 1967 record of 3 min. 51.1 sec., for example, endured for eight years. This year Coe and Ovett have batted the record back and forth like a Ping-Pong ball. In a mere ten days, they have swapped the record three times...