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According to Karen Wattel, the first female managing editor of The Tech, "The old stereotype for M.I.T. coeds (5 by 5 and the fastest slide rule north of the Charles) is definitely changing...
Although fencing turned out to be less wide-open and slashing than he expected, Winfield still found the sport exciting. "I'm sure its the fastest collegiate sport," he said...
...strongest unit in the two-mile relay--composed of Baker, Shaw, Trey Burns, and Dave McKelvey--this could be the race of the day. Villanova's team holds the world's record, but it was recorded on a fast eight-lap track. Harvard's quartet ran the country's fastest 11-lap indor two-mile of the season--the third fastest in history--with a 7:28.2 clocking in the USTFF Invitational Meet...
Premature Exposure. It may have been the fastest evolution in political history. Since he won his third term as Governor in 1966, Rockefeller and his closest advisers have believed that any overt move for the G.O.P. presidential nomination would 1) foreclose any hope of his winning it, and 2) seriously damage any other moderate candidate's chance. During a 1966 post-election vacation at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, Rockefeller outlined a plan to fuse factions in the national party from the center leftward in a "consensus" that would provide "practical alternatives to the present Administration" in both policies...
...stock-car "trioval"-a roughly triangular, 2½-mile circuit with two high-speed turns banked at 31° and a third turn banked at 18°. The banking, the perfectly smooth asphalt paving, plus the track's unusual width -three cars can race abreast-make it the fastest race track in the world. In qualifying trials for last week's tenth annual Daytona 500, the top 13 qualifiers ran the course at more than 180 m.p.h...