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...Fastest Gun. A new electronic game to determine the fastest-drawing young cowpoke in the block was put on sale by Kilgore, Inc., Westerville, Ohio. Titled Fastest Gun, the game provides a plastic steer skull and two six-shooters (attached to 8-ft. wires) with plastic holsters. The boy who draws faster and pulls the trigger makes one eye in the skull light up and ring a bell. Price...
Since 1940, when their policies came under SEC regulation, mutual funds have been among the fastest-growing of all forms of investment. More than 1,500,000 investors today hold shares of 168 diversified investment companies with a total net asset value of about $11 billion. The funds put more than $100 million a month into the securities market, hold about 3.8% of the dollar value of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The recession has scarcely slowed the growth of the popular "open-end" funds.* While sales of the mutual funds' shares were...
Among the world's major airlines, one of the fastest growing is a line whose apt symbol is a flying kangaroo and whose long hops take it from Australia clear round the world. In barely ten years, Australia's Qantas* has grown from a pouch baby into the world's ninth biggest international carrier, traveling some 15 million miles annually with 167,350 passengers. Last week Qantas was poised for still another leap. To Lockheed Aircraft went orders and options for six big Electra turboprop transports costing $15 million, 75% of which will be financed...
...fastest-sharpening wits in television belong to dark, disheveled Elaine May and blond, carefully tailored Mike Nichols, both 26, whose dry dialogues are as lethal as cold...
...fastest this year, reversing longtime