Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texan Foyt climbed into another Lotus-Ford and ripped off a lap at 161.9 m.p.h., won the pole position-and practically ensured that this year's race will be the fastest in the history of Indy's famed Brickyard...
Chunking Quarters. Then there was the Great Tire War. Since 1923 every 500 winner has used Firestone tires, a fact that nettles Firestone's competitors no end-especially The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. This year, Goodyear persuaded nine drivers to use its tires, including two of the three fastest qualifiers: A. J. Foyt and California's Dan Gurney, who won a spot in the first row by clocking 159 m.p.h. in yet another Lotus-Ford. Last week the company discovered to its horror that its specially made tires were "chunking"-spewing out quarter-size pieces of rubber. Goodyear...
...Kansas' Jim Ryun, 18: a 3-min. 58.3-sec. mile, fastest ever run by a high-schooler and only 4.2 sec. off the world record held by New Zealand's Peter Snell; in a meet at Wichita. Passing the three-quarter-mile mark in 3 min. 2 sec. Ryun sprinted the last quarter in 56.3 sec., clipped 3.7 sec. off his own high school record set last month...
Navy would appear to have the class of the sprint relay squads, but if Crimson coach Bill McCurdy ever decides to combine his four fastest men in this one, he can probably walk away with first place. Harvard, Navy, Army, and Cornell will battle for the mile relay crown...
...they only ask the question. Certainly the $555 million to be spent on construction through 1975 will provide substantial employment opportunities for those with minimal skills. But what then? As both Logue and Collins have repeatedly pointed out, the fastest rate of growth has been among and will continue to be among office workers in government and insurance. "Other personal and business services located mainly in the Downtown, including banks, utilities, law firms, securities and investments dealers, credit agencies, and architectural firms, handle a steadily growing volume of business." Now that's all very nice, but, at the risk...