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Then there was Jim Ryun. Already the fastest miler in history at 3 min. 51.3 sec., the University of Kansas sophomore had little hope of beating that time last week. Nowadays, world mile records are nearly always the result of careful planning and coordination: human mechanical rabbits are employed to insure a fast early pace, and the whole operation is carefully monitored by coaches armed with timing charts and stop watches. But there were no rabbits at Bakersfield, and the pace was so slow on the first lap that Ryun reluctantly decided to do his own pacemaking. His time...
...first time a U.S. car won a Grand Prix race was in 1921, when Jimmy Murphy of Vernon, Calif., drove a Duesenberg to victory at Le Mans at an average speed of 78.1 m.p.h. in the French Grand Prix. The second time was last week-in the fastest Grand Prix ever run. At Spa-Francorchamps, deep in the Ardennes Forest of eastern Belgium, The Star-Spangled Banner blared out over loudspeakers after California's Dan Gurney, 36, in a Formula I American Eagle, averaged 145.67 m.p.h. to win the Belgian Grand Prix...
Today, self-rechristened as "supplemental" airlines, the 13-company industry has bounced back to become the fastest-growing segment of U.S. aviation. Last year its revenues jumped 49% to a record $213 million, and profits climbed to $22 million-more than the nation's eleven domestic trunk airlines netted in 1963. "All the nuts and kooks have been weeded out," says President Roy E. Foulke of the National Air Carrier Association, spokesman for the supplementals. "We've got a hard-core group of operators...
Early in the week, the fastest thing in the world was an Israeli in a kayak in the Aqaba Gulf; by week's end, it was an Arab with his shoes...
...corridor. The idea that the corridor needed more branches struck Economist William E. Myers, 32, as he wrestled with Orange County statistics at his small market-research firm in Newport Beach. After all, with a population up from 216,000 in 1950 to 1,200,000, Orange is the fastest-growing metropolitan county in the U.S. As the home of Disneyland and the American League's California Angels, it attracts thousands of out-of-town visitors. On his own, Myers began assembling data in the hope of selling a study to an airline. In December 1965, he mentioned...