Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard career over Yale's healthy Olympian Bill Mettler in the 200-yard butterfly. Hayes set the pace for the first 50 yards relinquished the lead to Mettler for the next 100 and flailed his way back into the lead over the last 50, winning in his fastest time of the season 1:53.5 a half second ahead of Mettler...
...Corris has an obsession. He wants to whip Yale's Mike Buckley in the 200-yard breaststroke even though Buckley swam the fastest time in the East this winter, 2:12.9, which was 8.8 seconds faster than the record Corris set against Princeton. Corris, however, has not been pushed all year and has plenty of tenacity over the last 100. Look for him to stay a yard of Buckley's 1:03 plus pace for the first 100, churn into the lead with about 50 yards to go, and eke out the upset of the afternoon in record time...
Seared But Intact. Though the Apollo's engine achieved 10% less power than expected, the capsule still blazed into the atmosphere at nearly 19,000 m.p.h. and a temperature of 4,000°, fastest and hottest yet for any returning spacecraft. To protect the capsule, a new cone-shaped heat shield completely enveloped Apollo instead of guarding only the blunt end. It came through as expected, seared but intact. And three huge parachutes gently dropped Apollo into the Atlantic about 40 miles from its target ship, the U.S.S. Boxer...
...Class. The company's fastest growth is on campus. College stores now do a $260 million annual business...
Senior Lincoln windmilled his way to another Crimson sweep in the 200-yard backstroke, finishing in the fastest time of his career...