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...become unstoppable. With a strategy built around deadly backhand volleys, Lutz polished off Cliff Drysdale in the semifinals, then overpowered Tom Okker, the fastest man on the circuit, in a four-set final...
Track and field will dominate the second part of the Munich program. To the winner of the men's 100-meter dash traditionally goes the title of "world's fastest human." Early this year, when U.S. sprinters were rising and falling like imperfect souffles, it looked as if the title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern...
...track and field is the 1,500-meter run. If recent form prevails, the final should bring about a rematch between the duelists of Mexico, Gold Medalist Kipchoge Keino of Kenya and runner-up Jim Ryun of the U.S. Keino, despite an attack of malaria, recently ran the fastest 1,500 of the year, 3:36.8. Ryun, who has performed erratically for more than 18 months, seems to be reaching his peak once again. Even so, it may not be a two-man race. Kenya has another prospect in Mike Boit, who started running the distance this year...
...wind. In search of a better deal, more and more erstwhile tenants are moving to condominiums, in which occupants hold legal title to their apartments instead of mere leases. This form of housing was devised in medieval Europe, has long been popular abroad, and lately has become the fastest-rising development in the U.S. shelter market...
...office high above sun-sheened Honolulu Harbor, Henry Alexander Walker Jr., president of Amfac, Inc., a widely diversified service company, makes it clear that he and his brazen "no" men indeed have something special. As acquisitive as boys at a Good Humor truck, they have built the biggest and fastest growing Hawaii-based company. Amfac reaches into retailing, financing, farming and hotels, and is spreading into countries spanning almost half the globe. Last week Amfac expanded again, this time right into the populous East Coast. For $11 million in stock, the firm bought Baltimore's Hutzler Brothers, a department...