Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become a Zen Buddhist. I can sit in a monks' hall for seven days, sitting crosslegged, sleeping only one hour a night. I can sit 18 or 24 hours crosslegged, meditating. I can also enjoy a glass of champagne, the opera, a good car -I like a fast car, even though I don't drive any more. One of the things we learn in Zen is complete adaptability...
...James Van Allen was the intense radiation storm encountered 600 miles from the earth by Explorer satellites. Still to be learned is whether this danger zone stretches from pole to pole. If so, the space traveler may have to hurry through it, as Dr. Simons says, "like running fast through a grass fire...
...Pimlico's horse park. Calumet's
dark bay colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...Percy, president of Bell & Howell Co. Conference theme: what can businessmen do to meet the challenge of the recession without leaning on tax cuts or other Government help? The principal way to fight the slump, said Percy in his prepared speech, is to "produce better values -and do it fast." His company moved up by a year the introduction of nine new products, reduced prices to attract customers, planned a 67% increase in spending for capital equipment in 1958 over 1957. Said Percy: "We cannot believe in profits without believing in risks." Bell & Howell payoff: first-quarter gains...
...fast have sales risen that Case could run "for several months" on present orders; dealers must wait more than two months for some models. The biggest season for sales of heavy farm equipment is still ahead; more than 50% of the demand for such heavy-duty equipment as hay balers, combines and corn pickers comes in the second half of the year...