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Hull is the N.H.L.'s fastest skater (a Canadian research institute clocked him at 28.3 m.p.h. on a typical dash down the ice), and its hardest shooter: his left-handed slap shot zips toward the goal at 118 m.p.h.-19 m.p.h. faster than the fastest measured pitch in baseball. Even his backhand tops 90 m.p.h. "Stopping one of Hull's shots on the pads is like being slugged by a sledge hammer," says Toronto Goalie Johnny Bower, and when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved...
...billion. Travelers established its own weather station and research center in 1955, geared casualty insurance thereafter to better information on storms and industrial-accident causes. It was first to introduce monthly budget plans, and it writes 25% of all package-plan insurance sold in the U.S. Travelers' fastest-growing division now is group insurance, which the company got into in 1866 when it wrote a policy covering every member of the Baltimore fire department with $1,000 in life insurance. This year group will pull even in total premiums collected ($700 million) with casualty and fire insurance. The Travelers...
...third of the nation's steel and nearly two-thirds of its highly profitable sheet and strip is consumed within 250 miles of Chicago, but only a fourth of U.S. steel is produced in the area. Aware of the opportunities this situation offers in the world's fastest growing steel market, major steel companies are spending nearly $1 billion to expand or build new facilities in the Indiana industrial complex near Chicago...
...only other events contested, Ken Winters took the pole vault at 12 feet and a Wayne Anderson-Awori-Dick Briggs-John Parker team ran the fastest mile relay...
...combination of Fingleton, Corris, Hayes, and Seubold or Andrew Ginstead would look tough to beat, even against Army's fastest freestylers. But don't count on it. Two years ago in a similar situation, Brooks counted his points, ducked the opening relay, and pulled out of the freestyle relay for the victory...