Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Roy Shaw running the three-quarter mile in a blisteringly fast 2:54.3, Harvard's distance medley team placed second yesterday in the Penn Relays held in Philadelphia...
...celebrate on its first an niversary except its own dogged determination to hold onto power. The country is still ruled by decree, and the press remains under tight censorship. Because of the period of political uncertainty that preceded the coup, the Greek economy, which had been growing nearly as fast as Japan's, was headed into a recession even before the colonels seized power. Despite all sorts of pump-priming measures, such as the cancellation of $260 million in farmers' debts to the state bank, Greece's economy remains in low gear...
...Northwest, which now faces new Pan Am competition on the North Pacific route, which it once had to itself, would get a potential gold mine in fast-rising tourist traffic to Hawaii and the Orient, with direct routes from eleven cities ranging from Minneapolis to Boston...
...promised its first transpacific routes to the Orient (via Hawaii and Guam), a chance to become a genuine global airline in full competition with Pan Am for the fast-growing round-the-world passenger traffic...
...pulse rates of pulsars 2, 3 and 4. One of them blips every 1.27 seconds, another at 1.19-second intervals-close to the 1.34-second period previously reported for pulsar 1. Pulsar 4 pulses significantly faster: every quarter of a second. In addition, Hewish estimated that the fast-pulsing source is only 50 light-years away, compared with the 200-light-year distance he calculated for pulsar...