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...that Simpson is the only horse in the Trojan camp. He may be the fastest-last June, O.J. ran the third leg on Southern Cal's sprint relay team that set a world record of 38.6 sec. for 440 yds. But Flanker Jim Lawrence runs the 100 in 9.6 sec. End Earl McCullouch is a co-holder of the world rec ord (13.2 sec.) for the 110-meter-high hurdles. And Fullback Mike Hull, at 230 Ibs. the heavyweight of the U.S.C. backfield, has been clocked at 5.6 sec. for 50 yds. in full football gear...
Colburn, who campaigned all summer in Europe, also posted a 47.5 quarter mile-leg, the fastest quarter n his career, in helping win the mile relay for his club in the British club championships. His strong half mile-leg in the medley relay likewise helped his team cop that title...
...titular head of the crucial economics ministry, Wilson replaced supercautious Michael Stewart, 60, with Labor's fastest-rising star: lanky Peter Shore, 43. Though Wilson made it clear that he will run the show, Liverpoolreared, Cambridge-educated Shore will wield considerable power in shaping Britain's economic destiny. A left-of-center intellectual, Shore is a former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry...
Nicotine demonstrably places dangerous strain upon the heart muscles. E. Cuyler Hammond, vice president of the American Cancer Society, told the subcommittee: "Milligram for milligram, nicotine is one of the most powerful and fastest acting of all known poisons." He added unhappily: "I doubt that habitual heavy smokers would be satisfied with cigarettes which contain little or no nicotine...
While most attention has focused on preparations for the manned Apollo flight, last week NASA quietly proceeded with two other pioneering programs -the record-breaking test series of the X-15 and the XB-70, respectively the fastest and the heaviest supersonic aircraft in the world. Ironically, both planes were built by North American Aviation, Inc., the company that has borne much of the blame for the January spacecraft holocaust...