Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casually upping the beat to a fast 36 for the final drive, Yale's power-stroking crew, built around three veterans of the 1956 Olympic winners, defeated Pennsylvania by 2½ lengths in the 27th Blackwell Cup on the rain-flattened Harlem River. On Carnegie Lake, rowing with five sophomores in the shell, Harvard won the 22nd Compton Cup by 2½ lengths over Princeton in record time, raising the probability that the traditional Yale-Harvard race in New London next month will be a keel-hauler for both crews and will settle the championship of the east...
...president of the small Mitchel Oil Corp. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. "But the thing I can't stand is that you can't tell the present-day cars apart. They all look alike. I honestly can't tell a Plymouth from a Cadillac when they go by fast...
Detroit may be right that small-car sales will soon level off. But one of the reasons sales are climbing so fast is that more and more U.S. car dealers have taken on small cars until there are 11,088 agencies spread round the U.S. Detroit grumbles about dealer loyalty. Yet loyalty comes hard to many U.S. dealers, who have had troubles with the factory. Says Los Angeles' Mel Alsbury, one of the industry's most respected dealers and a 30-year Chrysler-Plymouth veteran whose cars have added to Chrysler's fame by winning the Mobilgas...
...hour. At this rate a man would receive in five hours his maximum weekly permissible dose of 0.3 roentgens. A small amount of lead shielding would reduce the dose to a supportable level. The crew of an outbound spaceship need not worry about the radiation belt. If moving fast enough to leave the earth, they would pass through it in about 20 minutes...
...Holy Cross debacle, five extra-base hits, two of them homers by Tom Ryan, gave the Crusaders an easy victory over a varsity team that couldn't seem to do anything against the fast balls of pitcher Jim Farino...