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Then there was Jim Ryun. Already the fastest miler in history at 3 min. 51.3 sec., the University of Kansas sophomore had little hope of beating that time last week. Nowadays, world mile records are nearly always the result of careful planning and coordination: human mechanical rabbits are employed to insure a fast early pace, and the whole operation is carefully monitored by coaches armed with timing charts and stop watches. But there were no rabbits at Bakersfield, and the pace was so slow on the first lap that Ryun reluctantly decided to do his own pacemaking. His time...
...first time a U.S. car won a Grand Prix race was in 1921, when Jimmy Murphy of Vernon, Calif., drove a Duesenberg to victory at Le Mans at an average speed of 78.1 m.p.h. in the French Grand Prix. The second time was last week-in the fastest Grand Prix ever run. At Spa-Francorchamps, deep in the Ardennes Forest of eastern Belgium, The Star-Spangled Banner blared out over loudspeakers after California's Dan Gurney, 36, in a Formula I American Eagle, averaged 145.67 m.p.h. to win the Belgian Grand Prix...
Today, self-rechristened as "supplemental" airlines, the 13-company industry has bounced back to become the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Last year its revenues jumped 49% to a record $213 million, and profits climbed to $22 million-more than the nation's eleven domestic trunk airlines netted in 1963. "All the nuts and kooks have been weeded out," says President Roy E. Foulke of the National Air Carrier Association, spokesman for the supplementals. "We've got a hard-core group of operators...
...industrial organization men embrace the cult of planning, leaving very little to the chancy market. Galbraith argues that they carefully plan production, use aggressive advertising as part of that planning to bamboozle the public into buying, and are sufficiently monopolistic to "establish prices and insure demand." In the fastest-rising industries-defense, space, atomics, electronics and supersonic transport-they have formed a common-law marriage with the Government, which underwrites most of their development costs and buys the bulk of their output. One result is that government purchasing accounts for 20% or 25% of U.S. economic activity-far more than...
Early in the week, the fastest thing in the world was an Israeli in a kayak in the Aqaba Gulf; by week's end, it was an Arab with his shoes...