Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buenos Aires-Rio run, covering 1,200 miles in less than 190 hours. Two weeks ago, in the 635-mile Newport-Bermuda race, Ondine was becalmed for twelve hours, but still led the 151-boat fleet across the finish. Her time-83 hrs. 12 min.-was a full hour faster than the second boat. Strictly for Power. Unlike most ocean-racing yachts, which are designed to compete on corrected rather than actual time (under a labyrinthine handicapping formula), Ondine is built strictly for brute power. "The only things we're trying to prove," says Long, "are that...
...Force brass were equally enthusiastic. Developed under a $1.9 billion contract with the Air Force, which has 58 of the planes ordered for delivery by 1971 (Lockheed hopes to see that order eventually increased to at least 200), the 540-m.p.h. C-5 is both bigger and faster than Russia's AN-22, until now the largest aircraft in operation. With a maximum payload of 265,000 Ibs. and a range, when fully loaded, of 2,875 miles, the Lockheed plane is powered by four General Electric fanjet TF-39s, the world's most powerful aircraft engines...
...SPOCK: "I want people to realize that of the two leading contenders for the presidency, Richard Nixon believes the war should be bloodier and faster. The leading Democratic contender is Hubert Humphrey, who has said nothing about the War. In fact he [Nixon] has been more in favor of the War than has Lyndon Johnson. I say, what an impasse for the United States to be in at this time. I say to the American People--Wake up, get out there and do something before it is too late, before we have another president committed to killing American...
...government at Harvard. Revolutions are commonly thought to be triggered by "material deprivation or unresponsive governments," he writes in the New York Times Magazine. Actually, the more people get, says Wilson, the more they demand. "Competition for leadership among dissident groups will inevitably generate ever more extreme demands faster than less extreme requests are filled." If anything is to blame for revolution, thinks Wilson, it may be prosperity, which has freed an ever increasing number of people, educated and not so educated, to participate in the political process. In this situation, government cannot act hastily. "Concessions sufficient to induce...
...service, which now accounts for 86% of the Santa Fe's rail revenues, is being improved. The Santa Fe last January inaugurated what it calls "Super C" Flexivan service. The "Super C" freights make the 2,200-mile run from Chicago to the West Coast in 40 hours, faster than the Super Chief...