Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...athletes?" Assured complete freedom, hard-driving Calvin C. Flint, 56, four years ago accepted the presidency of California's paper-stage Foothill College in Los Altos, 35 miles south of San Francisco. Starting from scratch, Flint has already made Foothill a mountaintop among U.S. junior colleges-the fastest-growing segment of U.S. higher education...
...missile-and-space work that now brings half of its sales. Three-quarters of the payload orbited by the U.S.-including the Discoverer, Midas. Samos-has been lifted by Lockheed's Agena space booster. Lockheed's Polaris missile is the Sunday punch of the nation's fastest-growing defense system, last year brought $372 million in sales for the company...
Owned by Japan's billion dollar Seibu Industries, whose holdings include Tokyo's fastest growing department store, a railroad and 36 hotels, Seibu of Los Angeles is the latest pet project of Seibu Chairman Yasujiro Tsutsumi, 74. During a 1959 visit to the U.S., Tsutsumi was shocked at the low quality of the Japanese products that he saw in well-to-do American homes. Convinced that there was a large unexploited market for Japan's wide range of quality merchandise, he decided that the way to tap it was not through specialty stores (such as Manhattan...
Yale had registered the second fastest time in the trials, behind Williams. In the evening final, the Crimson touched out the Ephman quartet with a time...
...later that he had no buttons left on his shirt and that he would do better in the evening finals after he had time to warm up. Like a flash, he won the finals in 0:21.2, a new NCAA, meet, Yale, pool, and personal record. It is the fastest recorded time for any swimmer in any event ever...