Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wayside: Graham Hill, the 1966 winner, out on the 24th lap with a sick piston in his Lotus-Ford; Mario Andretti, the speediest qualifier at 168.9 m.p.h., out on the 59th lap when his Brawner-Ford threw a wheel on the No. 3 turn; Dan Gurney, the second fastest qualifier (at 167.2 m.p.h.), black-flagged on the 161st lap with a blown cylinder in his American Eagle. And they had watched, first with awe, then with mounting ennui, as Parnelli Jones, in his turbine-powered STP Special, made it look too easy-coasting almost soundlessly around the track, smashing record...
...corridor. The idea that the corridor needed more branches struck Economist William E. Myers, 32, as he wrestled with Orange County statistics at his small market-research firm in Newport Beach. After all, with a population up from 216,000 in 1950 to 1,200,000, Orange is the fastest-growing metropolitan county in the U.S. As the home of Disneyland and the American League's California Angels, it attracts thousands of out-of-town visitors. On his own, Myers began assembling data in the hope of selling a study to an airline. In December 1965, he mentioned...
...expectations. The very first campaign that was developed entirely at W.R.G. was for Philip Morris' Benson & Hedges 100s. It started last August -and Philip Morris is already convinced that the self-kidding ads ("You'll never have to worry about lighting your nose") are responsible for the fastest start of any of its brands since Marlboros hit the market...
...There won't be a Triple Crown winner this year, and tomorrow's Belmont Stakes, the oldest, last, and longest of the three races resolves itself into one question: which horse will make it two out of three-- Proud Clarion, who beat Damascus in the third-fastest Derby in history, or Damascus, who beat Proud Clarion in the second-fastest Preakness...
...last six months is stories about guys in love with guys. Christ, the age of anybody being in love with girls must be over!" Thus moans a female character is Eustace Chisholm and the Works. The comment sounds distressingly like today's beleaguered fiction reviewer. Perhaps the fastest-growing literary genre in these times is frankly homosexual fiction in which the demimonde of the third sex is fully exposed down to its rawest nerve ending...