Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broke the world's altitude record, a habit the experts think the X-15 will continue until it doubles that height. The ten-minute ride to the fringes of space won Air Force Major Bob White, 38, the double distinction of becoming the world's highest and fastest (4,093 m.p.h.) winged-aircraft pilot. Upon landing on Rogers Dry Lake, Calif., White was debriefed with a frosty martini mixed by the flight surgeon&3151;another X-15 project habit...
Everybody's Business. Today's pro golfer is part showman, part TV personality, part salesman, a walking Chamber of Commerce for the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. Baseball and football may still be the great spectator sports, but athletes of all ages can-and do-play golf. This year, according to the National Golf Foundation, 6,000,000 Americans will take club in hand to play more than 90 million rounds of golf on 6,718 U.S. golf courses, most of them public courses or semiprivate clubs that charge a daily fee. The rich...
...Faster!" For 92 of the 100 laps, Hill seemed unbeatable. His B.R.M. was clearly the fastest car in the race, and he held a lead of nearly a minute over his closest pursuers: New Zealand's Bruce McLaren, in a Cooper-Climax, and California's Phil Hill, the 1961 world champion, driving a rear-engined, blood-red Ferrari. But it was not Graham Hill's day. His engine suddenly dropped a load of oil and conked out-McLaren spurted ahead. The Ferrari mechanics flashed "Faster!" at Phil Hill, and Phil desperately pushed his accelerator to the floor...
...Only one collision marred the 46th running of the Indianapolis 500, the fastest Memorial Day race-and one of the safest-in history. As usual, speed outstripped design: only 15 of the 33 low-slung racing cars that started managed to last the punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early...
...been on top-or near it-for twelve years is Belgium's hawknosed Rik Van Looy. To his fans, Van Looy is "the Emperor." To his competitors, he is "the Devil." Badge of the Fastest. At 28, an age at which cyclists were once considered washed up, Van Looy is at his peak, winner of more races (323) than any other cyclist in the world. He has won the world road-racing championship the last two years running, and he proudly wears the rainbow-striped shirt that is the badge of the world's best cyclist...