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Last week, billing itself as "the fastest growing college in Mid-America," Parsons announced a booming fall enrollment of 1,487 students from 37 states. The debts are gone; the college is self-supporting from student fees alone. New buildings are sprouting, faculty salaries have almost tripled to an average $7,200, and gifts have nearly doubled to about $300,000 a year. What hit Parsons...
...sports cars. But while the Formula Junior is indeed cheaper ($4,000 v. $15,000) and slower (125 m.p.h. v. 160 m.p.h.), it is also a good deal more nimble. When the Formula Junior hit the U.S. last year, drivers were so delighted that the car has become the fastest-growing class in the Sports Car Club of America. Says veteran U.S. Driver Augie Pabst: "In a Formula Junior, you can stop quick and corner fast. Frankly, it's a ball...
...cried. "This is really fantastic up here." At that moment, he was an estimated 131,000 ft. above the earth, nearly 25 miles. He was flying a rocket-powered X-15, North American's Black Dart, which only eight days before had set another record-traveling at the fastest speed in history, 2,196 m.p.h...
...first 100-meter trial, Farrell took a deep dive to spare himself the hard bellywhop of a flat racing start, stroked powerfully to finish in 55.9, second fastest time of the round. In the semifinals, Farrell got a bad start, but sprinted wildly to hit the wall with the fastest time...
Despite the loss of Farrell in the 100 meters, the U.S. team that made it through Detroit's hazardous shoals is the fastest ever to enter the Olympics. It had better be. Australia's swimmers should be nearly as strong as the crew that dominated the 1956 games in Melbourne (8 of 13 gold medals for men and women combined). And then there are the Japanese, who dominated Olympic men's swimming in the 1930s and are only now beginning to regain their prewar form with a crack team. In prospect is a glorious Roman water carnival...