Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Stock Exchange last Friday, floor brokers ended one of the more somnolent sessions of 1967: a mere 8,130,000 shares changed hands. Only last year, volume like that would have meant headlines. But no longer-for Friday's bell also rang out the biggest, fastest trading quarter in Big Board history...
...trawler's tanks were crawling with 6,624 lbs. of Alaskan king crab, which were promptly delivered to a Wakefield Seafoods, Inc., processing plant. Such pickings, by Kathy C. and a fleet of 40 other crabbers, have made Wakefield's founder, Lowell Wakefield, the leader of the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. fishing industry...
...great pinball machine, Midway's Two Man Rodeo. You can always get a game at Tommy's, but be sure that you're not being hustled by an expert. The Redo has inspired a cult of pinball addicts whose kingpin is Bob Willing '67, the fastest man on the flippers in Cambridge. Most pinballers never score above 500 points. Last year he racked up 2785 points, a record which should never be broken...
...started his watch at my first movement. When I trotted back I saw a surprised look on his face. 'Was I really that slow?' I asked. 'You better run it again,' he said as he started at his stop watch. 'I caught you in 4.5. That's the fastest I've ever timed anyone.' I tried to say that I'd just as soon not do it again, but he insisted. He caught me in 4.5 again and after that became a lot friendlier...
Freshman Ken Hurwitz (123) scored the fastest pin of the day, taking Frank Tjia of Matthews South in less than 30 seconds of the first period...