Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fastest time ever run by a collegian on the Van Cortlandt Park course...
...time shattered the Heptagonal record by almost a half a minute and was the fastest over run by a collegian on the revered Van Cortlandt Park course...
...overall number of cancer deaths is increasing slightly: 285,000 last year, 290,000 estimated in 1964, and 295,000 expected in 1965. Different kinds of cancer are increasing at different rates; lung cancer, once relatively rare, is rising fastest, and now for the first time displaces tumors of the colon and rectum as the most frequent cause of cancer death...
Pall Mall First. According to Analyst John C. Maxwell Jr., who keeps the most reliable count of this secretive market, American Tobacco's king-size Pall Mall is still the fastest seller, closely followed by R. J. Reynolds' Winston. Unfiltered Camel and Lucky Strike, which vied for first place until the late 1950s, are steadily losing favor. In a comeback attempt, American is test-marketing Lucky Strikes with a tobacco-flavored filter, has sent out Luckies' veteran, quick-tongued radio auctioneer, "Speed" ("Sold American!") Riggs, to promote them in stores throughout the South...
Everywhere, Europe's old-line producers are being pressed by well-financed local subsidiaries of U.S. companies. France's fastest growing auto firm is Chrysler-controlled Simca, which has increased sales 25% this year. General Motors' Opel and Ford's German subsidiary have closed in on Volkswagen, increased their combined share of the German market from 32% in 1962 to 41% last year. In Britain, Ford has captured 31% of this year's market, a new high. Ford is invading Italy, too, last week introduced the Anglia Torino, a small sedan that will be assembled...