Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implication is that most scientists insist that their laws are absolutely valid. Yet even Einstein is now being questioned, and there is uncertainty about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. As knowledge is gathered, the old "laws" are found more and more to apply only to special cases. Faster-than-light travel will probably be possible when our frame of reference has expanded far enough...
...proportion. Of the 795 women arrested in midtown Manhattan in the first six months of this year, 67% had prior prostitution records; each girl averaged seven arrests. A revised state penal code will limit prostitution sentences to a mere 15 days, and so the revolving door will spin faster and faster...
...actually a "trim tab," similar to an aileron on an airplane and is designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes a 2,200-sq.-ft. nylon spinnaker that weighs barely 15.8 Ibs.-plus the most of Bus Mosbacher...
Peter Paul's sales and earnings reacted nicely. They went up even faster when Zender acquired for $3,000,000 the Walter H. Johnson Candy Co. of Chicago and its Power House bar and then, last year, introduced a new bar called Caravelle. Last month Zender reported sales of $58,564,000 for the company's fiscal year, a 14% increase, and earnings...
Power & Comfort. Equipment is generally getting bigger and more powerful, with the average farm tractor now boasting 65 h.p. v. 27 h.p. in 1950. The increased power enables farmers to pull bigger implements, cover broader swaths, move faster across the fields. At the same time, there is more emphasis on comfort. Combines and tractors are now available with roomy, enclosed cabs featuring such luxuries as heaters, air conditioning, radios, tinted glass, cushioned seats-and even automatic transmissions...