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...coach. "His reputation, as well as the concept of a national team, will be at stake this summer. It just wouldn't make sense for him to ignore a star oarsman from another club or college in favor of his own men. He's interested in putting together the fastest boat possible. If he has to use six Harvard men to do to, that's a tribute to the kind of a coaching job he's done at Cambridge...
...swashbuckling and primitive breed of cowhand, whose lives and attitudes have changed little since the days of Simón Bolívar. Besides, the lawyer argued, others had done the same thing and gone unpunished on the llanos, "where the law that counts is that of the fastest." The defense claimed that on one occasion, the local DAS, the police force modeled on the Texas Rangers, helped kill 17 Indians accused of rustling cattle. One witness, an elderly trader, recalled that trappers used to offer him cured Indian skin along with crocodile hides and deer pelts. The llaneros even...
...last few years millions of Americans of every age, class and color have taken up the game. The number of outdoor courts is increasing at the rate of 4,600 a year, and indoor facilities have doubled since 1969 to more than 500. By all accounts, tennis is the fastest growing participant sport of the 1970s...
Splitsville continues to be the country's fastest growing community. Johnny Carson's Joanne received her divorce (plus $100,000 a year, an art collection and other property) when she tearfully told the judge how Johnny-after nine years, no children-was "abusive" and changed the locks on their Manhattan apartment. Peter Fonda's Susan filed suit for divorce after nearly eleven years and two children, claiming "irreconcilable differences" and her half of more than $2,000,000 worth of joint property. Andy Griffith's Barbara also filed for divorce (23 years, two children), while California...
...combined. However, sales really began to take off when the company broke the cost barrier on earlier models and produced Polaroids that retailed at discount for as little as $ 15. Since 1961, revenues have risen by 400%, to last year's $504 million, making Polaroid one of the fastest growing companies of modern times...