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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointing 6-ft. 4¾-in. high jump dropped him to second behind East Germany's Joachim Kirst. Next came the grinding 400-meter run, and after ten straight hours of competition, Toomey somehow managed to sprint the distance in 45.6 sec. It was the fastest time ever recorded in the decathlon-only 1.8 sec. off the new world record-and it put him back in the lead as the first day ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: The Original Ideal | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...Bank and Trust Company in Roxbury--the first bi-racial bank in New England--spoke in Hilles Library at Radcliffe. He was angry then, and one couldn't help but be struck by his overwhelming determination. He told a spellbound audience of 200, "We are going to be the fastest growing commercial bank in New England and everybody is going to help. If you don't help, someday you're going to sit back and say, 'I should have listened to that guy.' The time has come for people to get together. Because if you don't, you're going...

Author: By Mona Sarfaty, | Title: Soul Business--Roxbury's Unity Bank | 10/28/1968 | See Source »

Gentlemanly Debts. Giro is the most advanced, fastest-working variant of a system that has been working on the Continent for a long time. It is also the latest effort in the British post office's drive to turn the venerable institution into an aggressive, profit-making enterprise. Giro Director John Grady hopes to pay for operating costs and also make a neat profit by investing the pool of money created by Giro's constant flow of deposits. He expects that the new service will attract about 1,500,000 customers and $450 million in deposits within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Zip Code Banking | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Rock eats its young. Ginger Baker is like a beast from another world, a world of pressed rats, warthogs and toads. The controlled madness of his rhythm is responsible for the group's incessant drive. Ginger Baker must have the world's fastest right hand, left hand, right foot and left foot. The mind-bending accuracy with which he clouts the dozen or so drums and cymbals around him seems impossible when one looks at his scarecrow body. His physique provides the reason for Cream's demise. If Baker lives another year it will be a miracle. His whole nervous...

Author: By John C. Adams, | Title: REQUIEM FOR CREAM | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

There are other quirks as well. For decades, the FBI has used a $50 minimum in defining larcenies that make up an important part of its crime index. Obviously, the shrinking value of the dollar changes the meaning of those figures; partly as a result, larceny has been the fastest-growing category on the crime index recently. Another example: for as long as anyone has kept track, youths from the mid-teens to early 20s have committed the largest number of offenses in all categories. During the '60s, the post-World War II baby crop came of criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FEAR CAMPAIGN | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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