Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remained in the stands by 1 p.m. when Gurney's Lotus took off in the time trials to decide starting positions. A gasp went up when the announcer gave his speed: an average of 109 m.p.h. for the short one-mile track, almost 3 m.p.h. better than the fastest ever posted by an Offy at Trenton. Then came Clark, just a fraction faster to set still another record...
...Jimmy Brown weighs in at 235 Ibs., and teammates call him "the only player in football who looks bigger with his uniform off." With all that shock power, he is still the fastest man on the team. His balance is un canny: threading through the secondary, he tricks tacklers into loosening their grasp by relaxing as if he were about to fall-then spins and spurts away. Giant Linebacker Sam Huff still mutters about a Brown touchdown last year: "He was hit by nine guys as he went into the end zone from the seven...
...Grande Premio went to 60-year-old Adolph Gottlieb, a founder of the New York School that helped make abstraction the international style. And the prize for the best foreign painter was won by Alan Davie, who at 43 is considered by many to be Britain's fastest-rising abstractionist...
...Thornton has thought about this revolution perhaps more than any other man. "We are experiencing technological change at by far the fastest rate man has ever known," he says. "In the past 20 years we have seen more technological change than in all recorded history. It took 112 years for photography to go from being discovered to a commercial product, 56 years for the telephone, 35 years for radio, 15 years for radar, twelve years for television. But it took only six years for the atom bomb to become an operational reality, and five years for transistors to find their...
Birdlike Wings. Each can make a good argument that it should get the award. At North American, Chairman Lee Atwood holds a trump as builder of the RS-70, whose top speed of 2,000 m.p.h. makes it by far the fastest bomber ever produced. Chairman Courtlandt Gross's Lockheed has never built a big supersonic plane but gained experience and repute with its highly successful F-104 Starfighter. President William Allen's Boeing has the most passenger jet experience as builder of the 707. It has also spent $17 million of its own on SST research, designing...