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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dash, Mel Patton once explained, is to "boom and float" - explode from the starting blocks, drive hard for 50 yds., then "settle down and go for the ride." Slender and wiry, the World's Fastest Human of the '40s rode to a 9.3-sec. 100 - a world record that stood unmolested for 13 years, until Villanova's Frank Budd clocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: The Start's the Thing | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...World's Fastest Human today is a junior at Florida A. & M. who rarely booms and never floats. A shifty cut-and-shoot halfback on A. & M.'s football team, Robert Hayes, 20, runs the 100 as if he were cracking an enemy line: head bobbing, shoulders rolling, so pigeon-toed that he often steps on his own feet-a painful experience when he is wearing half-inch-long track spikes. "Starts are my weakness," Hayes said before last week's A.A.U. championships in St. Louis. "I don't get my top speed until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: The Start's the Thing | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Last week's Le Mans was true to tradition. Brazil's Bino Heins, 28, was killed when his French-built Alpine skidded on an oil slick, clipped a fence pole, spun into a ditch, and burst into flames. The fastest car in the race, a prototype 4.9-liter Maserati, led for the first two hours (averaging about 120 m.p.h.), then pulled into the pits, and was not seen again. The U.S.'s Phil Hill, driving an Aston Martin, topped a hummock at 150 m.p.h. to find a car rolling over and over directly in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Turbine on the Hell Circuit | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...debate in the Commons consisted mostly of talk-but what talk. Christine Keeler, the cause of it all, was strangely irrepressible and outwardly serene amid the tumbling of facades and the crash of reputations. Blossoming forth in ever more dazzling photographs, she became Britain's fastest-rising fallen woman. She was besieged by film and nightclub offers and incorporated herself as Christine Keeler, Ltd. She even landed, uncaptioned, on the cover of the austere Economist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Time of the Trollop | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...circuit-riding Berlitz instructors were teaching Japanese in Chicago to employees of Caterpillar Tractor, Spanish and German in Moline to officials of John Deere, and French in Wilmington to executives of Du Pont. U.S. Steel sends large groups of executives to Berlitz to determine which ones can learn Spanish fastest, later selects some of them for assignment to Venezuela. Corporation wives are almost always included in the various courses; companies have found that wives who are left speechless abroad soon start clamoring for a costly transfer back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Language Merchants | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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