Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barrier. The bride: attractive ex-Ballerina Lillian Lanese, 33, who helps run an El Paso ballet school. Though noted for his amateur cookery (mostly steaks), Space Surgeon Stapp was not sure who will preside over the kitchen: "Just say we'll manage to eat!" Long billed as "the fastest [632 m.p.h.] man on earth," Dr. Stapp allowed that he began romancing Lillian only three months...
John Hammond thrashed through the 100-yard butterfly in his fastest time of the season, 56.4, crushing the old mark by nine seconds. The 400-yard medley relay team of Bill Murray, Jim Stanley, Hammond, and Ron Mischner swam the distance in 4:01.8 to break the pool record by seven seconds. Doug McCartney swam the 200-yard breastroke...
Heavyweight Ted Robbins finished off the horror show with the fastest fall of the evening, taking down his lighter Tech opponent and pinning...
Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital British supply lines strung across the South Atlantic. The worried Allies sent out ten heavy vessels to hunt her down and destroy her, and on the morning of December 13, 1939, three of them--the cruisers Ajax, Achilles, and Exeter--succeeded in their task. After a sharp engagement that lasted an hour and a half and during which Exeter was crippled, the English task force...
Fringe Benefits. Manufacturing is growing fastest in the Gold Coast tourist spas, where any company can attract employee talent with the free fringe benefits of sun and surf. Dade County (Miami) leads the state with 96 new plants in the first half of 1957; Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) is second with 51 plants. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is being transformed from a senior citizens' haven to a humming technical center. Since 1956, General Electric's X-Ray division has established a $7,000,000 plant, and Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has opened a $4,500,000 missile-parts...