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Beirut is the world's newest and fastest-rising financial center. In the last decade it has expanded its banking business by 1,000% - and it shows no signs of slowing. Climbing above its clangorous, double-parked streets are more than 100 banks, including 41 foreign branches and offices as diverse as Moscow's Narodny Bank and the Bank of America. Since July, Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty and Irving Trust have both leased offices in Beirut. The First National Banks of Boston and Chicago are negotiating to open outlets, and another 13 banks have recently been incorporated...
With three meets already in the record books, you still can't find a Wait Hewlett on this freshman team (i.e. a guy who has already caught his breath when the next fastest runners plod across the finish line). But the team standout so far is undoubtedly Stempson...
...facts and figures of what Giscard calls "a sincere balanced budget, without any tricks or guile." In the land of Descartes, where the class prize begins in kindergarten and the race is to the swiftest synopsis, the elegant, aristocratic Giscard has been winning prizes all his life as the fastest brain in town. Born to wealth and name, Giscard zipped through France's best schools, became a member of the elite inspecteurs des finances, was only 35 when De Gaulle named him Finance Minister...
...there were plenty of others at least as enterprising as Boston. For Sprinter Bob Hayes, the "world's fastest human," the Los Angeles Coliseum was Last Chance Gulch; sidelined for three months with a torn hamstring muscle in his thigh, he had to finish at least third in one of the dashes to earn a trip to Tokyo. Hayes did even better: he tied the American record (10.1 sec.) for the 100-meter dash. Like Broad Jumper Boston, Ohio's Rex Cawley had an intriguing theory about breaking world records: don't train. Cawley's worked...
...first was at Corvallis, Ore.; Lind-gren's time was a so-so 29 min. 37.6 sec. One month later, at the U.S.-Russia track meet, he shaved 20 sec. off that time. Last week he ran the fastest 10,000 meters run by an American all year: 29 min. 2 sec.-winning by 70 yds. and waving happily to the wildly cheering crowd. No one, least of all Lindgren, has the foggiest idea how fast he can really run. "I'm not sure I can do any better than 29.2," Lindgren says. "But I sure hope...