Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royce Shaw through a lightning-fast, first quarter of 52 seconds and then barreled through the final quarter to record a fantastic 1:49.3. The time is more than two seconds better than the Harvard record (but will not count as a record). The only freshman to record a faster time last year was Jim Ryun, and a comparison between the two is not completely unrealistic...
...picture's pulse. The only theft that comes off is Michael Crawford's-and he steals the show. Currently starring in Broadway's Black Comedy, Crawford, at 24, displays a plastic face and an elastic grace-comic credentials that should allow him to travel in faster and funnier company...
...meagre $2,500, fought with confirmed speed horses every step of the way to set the pace in the Derby, and he shook them off one after another. With half a mile to go, Barbs Delight passed the six furlong mark in 1 minute 10 4/5 seconds, which is faster than most horses, even good ones, manage to race when six furlongs is as far as they are going...
...satisfied with their ventures, especially since Taiwan gives them a five-year holiday from income-tax payments and allows repatriation of earnings and capital. "We expect wages to go up," says William B. Scott, manager of a $24 million Philco radio plant at Tamsui, "but productivity will go up faster...
...minutes) had run out. The final footage shows the U.S. cavalry riding to Bond's rescue, joined shortly by American Indians parachuting from planes and shouting "Geronimo!", the French Foreign Legion, and a Mack Sennett-style squadron of period policemen. This kind of keystone cop-out was done faster and funnier 34 years ago when the Marx Brothers made Duck Soup. But in those days comedies consisted of scenes and not herds...