Word: fastest
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...that Simpson is the only horse in the Trojan camp. He may be the fastest-last June, O.J. ran the third leg on Southern Cal's sprint relay team that set a world record of 38.6 sec. for 440 yds. But Flanker Jim Lawrence runs the 100 in 9.6 sec. End Earl McCullouch is a co-holder of the world rec ord (13.2 sec.) for the 110-meter-high hurdles. And Fullback Mike Hull, at 230 Ibs. the heavyweight of the U.S.C. backfield, has been clocked at 5.6 sec. for 50 yds. in full football gear...
...Bulwark. All that speed leads Notre Dame's Coach Ara Parseghian to call U.S.C. "undoubtedly the fastest college team I have ever seen." And certainly one of the most complete. There is All-America Tackle Ron Yary, the 6-ft. 6-in., 245-lb. bruiser who bulwarks the offensive line, and Linebacker Adrian Young, who intercepted four Notre Dame passes. And there is Quarterback Steve Sogge, a top pro baseball prospect (he batted 400 for the U.S. team that won at last summer's Pan American Games), who could also fling a football...
Colburn, who campaigned all summer in Europe, also posted a 47.5 quarter mile-leg, the fastest quarter n his career, in helping win the mile relay for his club in the British club championships. His strong half mile-leg in the medley relay likewise helped his team cop that title...
...titular head of the crucial economics ministry, Wilson replaced supercautious Michael Stewart, 60, with Labor's fastest-rising star: lanky Peter Shore, 43. Though Wilson made it clear that he will run the show, Liverpoolreared, Cambridge-educated Shore will wield considerable power in shaping Britain's economic destiny. A left-of-center intellectual, Shore is a former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry...
While most attention has focused on preparations for the manned Apollo flight, last week NASA quietly proceeded with two other pioneering programs -the record-breaking test series of the X-15 and the XB-70, respectively the fastest and the heaviest supersonic aircraft in the world. Ironically, both planes were built by North American Aviation, Inc., the company that has borne much of the blame for the January spacecraft holocaust...