Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard hockey team will find itself in its usual role of underdog tonight when it faces Boston College at 8 p.m. at Watson Rink. The explosive Eagles will be the fastest skating team Harvard has faced...
...going on in there and say, "Look - some nut's building an airplane in his garage." But Jim Shewmaker, 39, a salesman for a chemical firm who lives in a quiet suburb of St. Louis, knows he is no nut. He is a practitioner of one of the fastest-growing hobbies...
...infractions as "bottom turning"-cutting in front of another surfer knifing down the wave. The surprise winner: Honolulu Schoolboy Fred Hemmings Jr., 18, who became surfing's youngest world champion ever by riding three waves 600 yds. or so, tucking himself out of sight in "the pipe" (the fastest, most dangerous part of the wave, where it rolls over and down) to gain speed, sliding around the buoys without losing "the green,"-the unbroken portion of the wave...
...Fastest and Farthest. Such wave lengthening, which astronomers call a "red shift," is the familiar tool used to measure the speed of objects moving away from the earth. The fastest of the mysterious objects measured by Dr. Schmidt proved to be speeding away at 76,000 miles per second, which is about half of the speed of light...
Macy's men are also masters of all the subtle and not-so-subtle nuances of selling. They have discovered that goods sell fastest on the ends of counters or at stands in the middle of aisles, and fastest of all on the main floor; the store stocks only the hottest-selling impulse merchandise there, never its slow movers. Macy's also plays to the peculiar variances in consumer tastes in different parts of the U.S. Women's hats sell best in heavily Catholic neighborhoods (the women wear them to Mass). In New Haven, an Ivy League...