Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history; two months ago in Florida, Sadair cracked a bone in his foot. Then there was Bold Lad, brightest star in Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Wheatley Stable, the top money-winning stable in the U.S. ($1,073,572 in 1964). A son of Bold Ruler, "the fastest horse in the world up to nine furlongs," Bold Lad seemed like a chip off the old block when he won six stakes last year. He was, in more ways than one. All through his career, Bold Ruler was bothered by "splints"-painful, tumorlike growths on the shinbones. Bold...
...boxes, they had-that's right-automatic transmissions. "Better acceleration," Hall insisted, and in a practice run for last week's twelve-hour Prix de 1'Endurance, he tooled around Sebring's 5.2-mile course in 2 min. 57.6 sec.-nine seconds better than the fastest Ford...
...Luigi Chinetti tried to plead nolo Commendatore, claiming that the cars were not really representing old Enzo at all-they were just individual entries competing as individuals. To prove the point, Chinetti had the cars painted five different colors. A Ford mechanic admitted that the Chaparrals were "the fastest cars here, no doubt about it." But could they keep running for twelve hours? The automatic transmissions were certain to impose an extra load on the Chaparrals' brakes-since they would be unable to gear down on Se-bring's 13 curves. Snorted Hall: "We've got heavy...
...conditioned rooms, waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving in a shrine, the computers go about their work quietly and, for the most part, unseen by the public. Popping up across the U.S. like slab-sided mushrooms, they are the fastest growing element in the technical arsenal of the world's most technologized nation. In 1951 there were fewer than 100 computers in operation in the U.S.; today 22,500 computers stand in offices and factories, schools and laboratories-four times as many as all the computers that exist elsewhere...
...most French kitchens. Behind its slogan, "Moulinex liberates the woman," the company is increasingly selling the French housewife on le confort. Its product line is also stretching beyond the kitchen, now includes electric heaters, vacuum cleaners and a $3.50 hair dryer that is one of the world's fastest-selling models...