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At the risk of compounding William G. Carson's bewilderment (ref his letter to the Editor, May 78 MA), let me say that I didn't even win the Mulvihill event that glorious day at the SHOC annual of May 1969 when I set the record at 68m 54s, and Lee Polansky was pushing the A gas record over 94 min. Bob White won because he had more time at 2 o'clock when the contest officially ended. Then he talked me into continuing flying for the record even though it was his record we were shooting for. Not only that, he chased all those extra flights, Red Johnson and Andy Faykun timed them, and CD John Tischler supervised the whole affair, all staying 3 hours past the close of the contest. And that's how it's done-with a lot of help, and a little shoving.