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...speeds over camel-backed "whoopdedoos" spend a minimum of $10,000 on their rigs. The cash prizes for most races are about $2,000. In Laughlin, a rest-stop community of 100 residents and three casinos tucked away in Nevada's desolate southern tip, the car with the fastest time...
...that an appropriate policy? Republicans Sprinkel and Murray L. Weidenbaum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, say yes: they think that the recovery now in prospect is the fastest that the U.S. can afford without kicking up inflation. Democrats Heller, Okun and Pechman insist that there is so much slack in the economy that a more expansionary policy would speed recovery and bring the jobless rate down faster while producing little or no added inflation. Yet Pechman concludes resignedly that in the present political climate, an extension of the 1975 tax cut and a money supply growth within Federal Reserve...
...have dropped drastically, from a 1:15 in the 100-yard freestyle three years ago to a 1:03 low this season. In swimming, where dropping a second can be a season goal, a 12-second plunge is an impressive accomplishment. In the 50-yard free-style, swimming's fastest event, Murphy's top time has fallen from 30.0 freshman year to 27.7 this season. She has consistantly placed first this fall in the 200-yard freestyle and 500-yard freestyle and has captured at least two first places in dual meets this season against Wheaton...
...other freshman, Gene Purdy. Hughes may be the Crimson player to watch this year. Last year he prepped at Choate, but before that he set all sorts of Mass. high school records for Malden Catholic and was the top high school player in the state. Bell, perhaps the fastest skater on the team, was a regular last season. Purdy's excellent play, on the other hand, has been something of a surprise...
...board, for example. A World Skateboard Pro-Am Championship at the Los Angeles Sports Arena last month attracted 37 teams of pros, including Top Star Denis Schufeldt, 24, a San Diego yoga teacher who claims to use "yoga and body control" to retain his title as the fastest downhill racer...