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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smirnoff far beyond its hopes. Vodka somehow appealed to youth, seemed lighter and thus less fattening (it isn't), and was so versatile that it could be mixed in anything from a Bloody Mary to a Russian Virgin (vodka with a whisper of Cointreau). It has been the fastest-growing liquor in the U.S. for the past five years and now accounts for 70% of Heublein's total sales; Smirnoff has also become the fourth biggest seller among all liquor brands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Bottled Bartender | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Hull is the N.H.L.'s fastest skater (a Canadian research institute clocked him at 28.3 m.p.h. on a typical dash down the ice), and its hardest shooter: his left-handed slap shot zips toward the goal at 118 m.p.h.-19 m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Hockey: The Well-Mannered Mesomorph | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...billion. Travelers established its own weather station and research center in 1955, geared casualty insurance thereafter to better information on storms and industrial-accident causes. It was first to introduce monthly budget plans, and it writes 25% of all package-plan insurance sold in the U.S. Travelers' fastest-growing division now is group insurance, which the company got into in 1866 when it wrote a policy covering every member of the Baltimore fire department with $1,000 in life insurance. This year group will pull even in total premiums collected ($700 million) with casualty and fire insurance. The Travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insurance: New Hands on the Umbrella | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...third of the nation's steel and nearly two-thirds of its highly profitable sheet and strip is consumed within 250 miles of Chicago, but only a fourth of U.S. steel is produced in the area. Aware of the opportunities this situation offers in the world's fastest growing steel market, major steel companies are spending nearly $1 billion to expand or build new facilities in the Indiana industrial complex near Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steel: Competition Moving Inland | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

...only other events contested, Ken Winters took the pole vault at 12 feet and a Wayne Anderson-Awori-Dick Briggs-John Parker team ran the fastest mile relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powerful Track Team Starts Season | 12/8/1964 | See Source »

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