Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...represent the U.S. in swimming at the Olympics in Rome, a sad-faced Kansan named Jeff Farrell, 23, was the man. The greatest U.S. sprinter by consent and by competition, Farrell last month won the National A.A.U. championship by thrashing through the 100-meter freestyle in 54.8 sec., fastest time ever for an American. He looked a cinch to take the 100 meters, and to win a place on the 800-meter relay squad as well, at last week's Olympic trials in Detroit. But six days before the trials, Farrell underwent an emergency appendectomy and sent U.S. swimming...
Powerful Stimulant. Signs of second-half improvement are already visible. Steel orders show promise of increasing (see below). Auto sales in mid-July hit the fastest clip in four years, with dealers selling an average of 17,485 U.S.-built cars daily. For the first six months, the new compacts accounted for 25.1% of the market. Last week General Motors was readying its new compact, one of a new group of scaled-down big cars that will hit the 1961 market. Its name: the Oldsmobile F-85, a smaller version of its big-car brother with a new eight-cylinder...
Farrell had swum the fastest race of the semi-finals, 55.6 sec., but was unable to repeat his performance in the final...
Apparently the rubella virus inflicts its severest damage on whichever tissues happen to be developing fastest when the infection strikes. Toronto's Dr. Andrew J. Rhodes gave this timetable: rubella causes cataracts in the sixth week, deafness by infection in the ninth, heart defects fifth to tenth weeks, dental deformities sixth to ninth weeks...
...Hughes Air craft at 35. At 47, he is a hard-working executive worth $37 million in 443,024 shares of Litton stock. It all started when he quit Hughes in the exodus of brains (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953), started his own company, which is one of the fastest-grow ing electronics firms (1959 sales: $125 million), claims to be the biggest U.S. manufacturer of desk calculating machines...