Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After four months of subsonic scrutiny, the White House last week decided to go ahead with the construction of a supersonic transport. The President authorized Seattle's Boeing Co. to build two prototypes of the delta-winged. 338-ton 1,800-m.p.h. SST, which will fly 300 m.p.h. faster than the Russian and joint British-French prototypes already being built, and will carry 300 passengers to its competitors' 130-odd. The U.S. aircraft, to cost $40 million each, will be able to fly from New York City to Paris in two hours and 20 minutes, v. seven hours...
...people, is agleam with new office buildings, hotels, theaters, boutiques (one soon to be opened by Mary Quant) and more miniskirts per square thigh than New York. Toronto (pop. 2,100,000), the Anglo-Saxon's answer to French Montreal, is richer, and rebuilding itself even faster. Both are youthful cities: half of Canada's population is under...
...Oregon researchers reported that DMSO had varied medicinal properties-that, in fact, it was a wonder drug. Daubed on the skin, they said, it soothed not only the superficial pain of burns, but also the deep pain of crippling rheumatoid arthritis. It helped burns and wounds to heal faster; it eased itching-and cured athlete's foot...
...gold in the free world's central banks actually dwindled (by $100 million), as private hoarders bought huge quantities of the metal. Dollars, the second major source of world monetary reserves since World War II, provided no offsetting lift because France turned in its own dollars for gold faster than other nations added dollars to their reserves. World trade, on the other hand, swelled by 81% in 1965 and 91% in 1966. If continued, those trends mean that international trade will bog down in time for lack of gold and money...
Good defense clearing, especially by sophomore defenseman Mike Ananis, kept the Eph-men mainly downfield after the first quarter, and the Crimson was faster on the ball than in almost any other match of the season...