Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From end to end, the starting line averages 239 lbs. per man. The fullback runs the 100 in 10 sec. flat, and he is only the third fastest man on the team. The four backs, between them, have accounted for 25 touchdowns. It is the best college football team in the U.S.-but it exists only on paper. All season long, perched in some remote corner of the stadium, immune to the blare of the band and the frenzy of the fans, the professional football scout sits with notebook and binoculars, looking for tomorrow's men among today...
...news went farthest and fastest by radio and TV. In the U.S., all three major networks, alerted by wire service bulletins, set every camera and every newscaster to covering the story of the President's assassination. CBS announced that it was suspending all other programs and all commercials until after Kennedy's funeral on Monday. NBC and ABC made similar announcements but left open the time when they would resume normal schedules...
...uniform yesterday for the first time in two weeks and "running remarkably well," Yovicsin said. "Of course," the worried coach sighed, "he might not be able to walk tomorrow." Grant pulled a leg muscle in practice and missed both the Princeton and Brown games. When healthy, he is the fastest man wearing Crimson this year...
...Fastest Risers. Of 1,140 stocks on the Big Board, 880 have risen and 250 have fallen this year. The fastest risers lately have been the manufacturers of color-TV sets and office equipment, while the laggards have been the space and defense stocks. As of last week, brokers were generally bullish about many drug producers, airlines and electronics companies, and down on hotel chains, real estate firms, savings and loan associations. Perhaps it is time to be wary when most Wall Streeters start talking alike, and perhaps the market will take a beating if tax-cut hopes fail...
...profitable parade of Triumph sports cars (now second after Volkswagen among cars imported to the U.S.), Perkins diesel engines and aircraft parts. British businessmen have also been working the eastern side of the street, selling large amounts of steel to Red China and machinery to Russia. But the fastest rise in British exports is to the Common Market, which will buy 15% more from its rejected suitor than it did last year...