Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to beat their neighbors to the beach. Even the pre-race parade, which called for the competitors to ride in neat ranks three abreast behind a pace car, immediately degenerated into a fight for the pole. It took three turns around the 2½mile track before the fast-moving field straightened out enough to satisfy the official starter. Then the green flag fell and 33 big feet pushed 33 throttles to the floorboards. The restrained snarl of the parade whined into the high-powered scream of the annual Memorial Day drive toward fame or death...
Driving the same Belond Special that won for Sam Hanks last year, Bryan tramped on his foot throttle and tried to pull away. At the halfway mark he was still being tailed by Veterans Tony Bettenhausen and Johnny Boyd. Coming up fast was Rookie Driver George Amick. Each of the cars was powered by a four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. The drivers' skills and the speed of their pit crews meant more than any mechanical difference...
...Competing for the last time as a Villanova undergraduate, Irish-born Ron Delany led the Wildcats to the I.C.4-A team title by lowering his own meet record for the mile from 4:08.4 to 4:07.8, and winning the 880-yd. run, just 1¼ hr. later, with a fast 1 :50. It was all just a warmup for next week's meeting at Compton, Calif, with Aussie Herb Elliott, who got ready himself by winning the California Relays mile...
...professional management. But the fund buyer pays commissions of up to 8%. How do the professional managers fare? With the rising market of the last ten years, nearly all the funds show impressive gains. But few outperform the market. The big funds have not increased in value as fast as blue chips. "Sure," says Joseph E. Welch, executive vice president of the $651 million Wellington Fund. "With the benefit of hindsight, an investor might have done better to put his money into some of the blue chips. But the catch is, which one should he have picked? Any sensible mutual...
...have costs gone up so fast, and why does industry find it so hard to cut them? Last week Federal Reserve Economist Murray Wernick gave as his reason the fact that industry has exaggerated the gains in productivity credited to production-line workers. These so-called gains form the basis for wage boosts, and also lead industry to exaggerate the wages it can give without increasing costs...