Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instantaneous communication, the world is becoming smaller as jets become faster. Telstar and Early Bird make it possible for Americans and Japanese and Russians, without even leaving their homes, to watch a soccer game in London while it is being played. Moving information at the speed of light has reversed the trend toward expansion of the world, and McLuhan suggests that the world will continue to shrink until we all live in a village again, a single, global village...
...Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause was still hopeless. Pattie had proved conclusively that she was the faster boat and deserved the right to represent Australia against the U.S. next September. Packer, typically enough, did not concur. He asked for a fortnight's layoff to modify Gretel again and a whole new series of elimination trials...
...sweeping both the giant slalom and the special slalom. And that is exactly what she did. In the giant slalom, she flashed to a .41-sec. victory. In the special slalom, leading Marielle by only .05 sec. after the first run, Nancy announced: "I can run a little faster next time." She could indeed. She then whipped down the 1,250-ft., 56-gate course in 44.51 sec. to edge Marielle by .02 sec. Her total margin of victory was only .07 sec., but by that thin hair Nancy Greene won the World...
...1920s. But for years U.S. foot-and-mouth-disease restrictions and Mexican law allowed them to trickle north of the border only periodically. Nonetheless, the creamy-white, deep-chested Charolais quickly caught on with U.S. cattlemen because they are one of the world's heaviest breeds. They grow faster than most cattle; after weaning, many gain 100 lbs. a month. Two years ago, there were 30,000 purebred Charolais in the U.S. Today, there are nearly 50,000, plus another 200,000 crossbreeds...
Merger Appetite. With all that diversification the industry's sales of non-aerospace items last year grew 25% to $2.45 billion. Moreover, such business increased at a faster rate than industry revenues from civilian aircraft despite a rash of airline orders for jet transports. Thus it is no surprise that aerospace companies are more anxious than ever to tap lucrative new fields and reduce their worrisome dependence on Government contracts...