Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fastest-growing branches of U.S. litigation is product-design liability suits against manufacturers, claiming that faultily designed products caused serious injuries or deaths. "This explosive field has grown tenfold in the last ten years-and that's on the conservative side," says Lawyer Craig Spangenberg, partner in a Cleveland firm that specializes in such cases. Spangenberg is all for it: "There's no reason why American industry can send a rocket to the moon and not design a can opener that's safe...
...fastest-selling new spy thriller in the U.S., already on the bestseller lists, is The Kremlin Letter, by Noel Behn (284 pages; Simon & Schuster; $4.95). It raises no serious questions at all, except perhaps about taste. Faced with the espionage writer's inevitable decision of choosing between Ian Fleming's rollicking escapism and John le Carre's gritty realism, Author Behn, a onetime off-Broadway producer who served for two years in the U.S. Army's counter-intelligence corps, cops out. The result is a pop horror comic about a mission to Moscow by a team...
...also had a small but genuine genius, which she poured into some of the best known children's books ever published. In The Tale of Peter Rabbit, one of the simplest, shortest and fastest-moving tales ever written, her pastel-tinted miscreant wiggled under a forbidden fence for a lawless day in Mr. McGregor's garden and wriggled forever into the lives of millions. That story was followed by a score of other children's books, tales of Squirrel Nut-kin, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Mrs. Tittle-mouse, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and-generally recognized by Potter connoisseurs...
...Paul Jones was in command of his own ship at 21, and Pitt the Younger was Prime Minister of England at 24. But complex technologies and lengthy professional studies have forced young men to play the waiting game. Also, they have lost what Lexicographer Bergen Evans notes was "the fastest path of advancement-dead men's shoes." In Europe and Asia, the old still hold sway. In the heart of Europe, De Gaulle is in full command at 75, and it is unlikely that Germany would defy ex-Chancellor Adenauer...
...North Sea province of West Jutland, the Rev. Eilif Krogager, 56, has worked for 31 years to set the feet of his parishioners firmly on the road to heaven. Unlike other clerics, Krogager can also send his flock skyward by jet: he runs a tourist agency that is the fastest growing in all of Scandinavia. His Tjaereborg Travels this year will do a $30 million business booking trips for 170,000 people, including 10,000 leaving this week for Western and Southern Europe and North Africa. Through ten subsidiary companies, Tjaereborg owns a fleet of two Caravelles, seven...