Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hardin's time of 24:59:4 was his best ever on Van Cortland's five mile layout, but he thought he could have gone much faster. "I was holding back when I passed Jim (Baker)," the soft-spoken musician said afterwards as newsmen gathered 'round, "but it felt really good...
...Faster than Ever. It remains to be seen whether the Administration can make political capital out of the record expansion. Americans may be making more money than ever, but a recent Gallup poll showed that 60% of them still regarded finances as their most urgent problem; thanks in part to medicare, illness was second, noted by only 8%. A Christian Science Monitor survey of the Governors said that they "see the housewife's economic anxieties (and her husband's, too) as overshadowing either Viet Nam or crime in the cities as the issue most likely to be felt...
Despite the burden of such a legacy, Russia is changing faster and in more ways than at any time in its history. Instead of the fiery prophet Lenin, the obsessed and brutal Stalin or the bub bly and unpredictable Khrushchev, it is led today by an oligarchy of sober, cautious bureaucrats who embody the country's new striving for respectability. Under the aegis of Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously...
...shutdown of the Suez Canal came as a boon for shipbuilders. The Japanese, who got their first boost with the 1956 closing of the canal, underbid the European builders by about 10% and soon had their order books bulging, with delivery dates stretching through 1971. Swan, Hunter & Tyne promised faster delivery, contracted to finish its first Esso supertanker by August...
...addition to delaying the opening of Mather House, an extended wait before cuts could also mean that more will have to be cut. New England construction costs are now rising faster than those in other sections of the country, Trottenberg said. He blamed that on the large amount of new construction going on at this time in New England...