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...mile, Doug Hardin set a brisk, steady pace and gradually pulled away from the field. Hardin eventually lapped everyone but teammate Dave Pottetti and finished first with a time of 8:56.2. Pottetti took second and senior Tim McLoone opened his comeback with third place...
...promises to increase the already brisk sales of bank protection devices. At least 25 major companies make surveillance cameras and recorders that give instant replays. Noting that financial institutions have used similar devices and procedures for years, bankers question whether the federal act will reduce robberies. "It's like legislating against sin," says James B. Griffith, a vice president at California's 380-branch Security Pacific National Bank, which suffered 53 stickups last year...
...years as its chief officer. He is a far more hard-driving administrator than his predecessor, Dutch Theologian Willem Visser 't Hooft. In Geneva, Blake, 62, presides over the council's starkly modern, three-story ecumenical center with all the dispatch of a top business executive. His brisk ways may occasionally irritate some Europeans (who make up a majority of the center's 336-man staff), but he also displays a democratic touch. He consults with his colleagues more than "Visser" did, has worked hard to improve his French, often casually takes lunch with other employees...
...flyer." That temperament served English well when he and a team of top Express reporters set out to produce a book on the 1968 U.S. presidential election. Divided They Stand (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) is not only the first full-length study of that memorable race. It is also brisk, readable and sharply focused, with a detached perspective that injects freshness into familiar events...
...policies that are sold without a medical examination or credit check, mostly to shopkeepers and employees of firms without disability income plans. For a $3 annual premium, the policy pays disability benefits of $15 a week for 15 weeks; most customers buy two or more policies. Sales are also brisk for Combined's Little Giant life policy, which has a $1,200 face value and an average annual premium...