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Despite this impressive lineup, a simple check of individual swimmers' fastest times will show that the Big Green is outclassed in today's meet. Harvard, however, is not taking them lightly. Dartmouth has a reputation of being unpredictable...
...wait four to six weeks to get it," he observes, "is not an average record customer." Along with Columbia House and such smaller competitors as the Longine Symphonette (a seven-record set by Nat King Cole), Crane's firm has made the TV-promoted mail-order market the fastest-growing segment of the record business...
...distant from our shorelines). The architects of decent in both the national Executive and Congress--Free Worlders all believe rightly we hold the edge in this game, that we hold the chips (read: technology), the best and brightest players the most efficient organizations, and as always being them the fastest gunmen, to dominate any and all bargaining sessions and literally control the agenda for the future. A corollary belief is that the achievement of a (nearly) warless international community dominated by U.S. power would allow this nation's domestic machinery to function within the old imperial now called multi-national...
ELECTRICITY. Short of tossing away unnecessary gadgets like electric toothbrushes and shoeshine kits, one of the fastest ways to conserve energy is to switch to fluorescent lighting, which requires far less power than the ordinary-and highly inefficient-light bulb, but gives off from three to seven times as much illumination. There are many ways to pare energy use, but most of them would have to be enforced by law-or at least a strong national publicity campaign-to make them effective. For example, consumers can use regular refrigerators, which require 40% less power than those that are frost-free...
...serial publication of Yukio Mishima's last works, a tetralogy called The Sea of Fertility, has the eerie effect of making him seem the fastest and most prolific dead writer in history. A bit more than a year ago came the English translation of the first posthumous volume, Spring Snow. Last summer it was Runaway Horses. Now we have The Temple of Dawn...