Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Energy Commission is beset on all sides-especially by U.S. businessmen who fear, as one said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast the U.S. is traveling along the road to commercial nuclear power, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Atomic Power...
...after a two-year rise from copyboy to overnight editor of Chicago's hardboiled, fast-moving City News Bureau,* brash, blond Bruce Sagan (rhymes with pagan) paid $2,500 for a withered weekly called the Hyde Park Herald. Breathing life into the body and new fire into the Southside community. Publisher Sagant mounted a hard-hitting campaign for slum clearance, coupled picture spreads of slum dwellings (including owners' names) with authoritative how-to-do-it articles on redevelopment. Outcome: Hyde Park qualified for federal aid as the Midwest's first and biggest project of this type approved...
...honor was not lightly won; seldom have the pros played more brilliant basketball. For the West, little (5 ft. 10 in.) Slater Martin of St. Louis and aging (31) Dick McGuire of Detroit whistled the ball down the floor on the furious fast breaks that kept their team in the ball game. Basketball's Nijinsky, Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics, still slick and sly at the tree-ripened age of 29, broke the game wide open for the East in the last five minutes when he ran up seven straight points...
...jump shot is a model for the league. On defense, he has tactics for every player, e.g., against Cincinnati he presses hook-shooting Clyde Lovellette, but he lies back for the dribbling of Maurice Stokes. In addition, Pettit's rubber-legged rebounding starts the Hawks hustling on their fast break...
...This winter he put the finishing touches on a new ski technique. "I had been putting too much weight on my inside [uphill] ski, and I tried to ski more on my outside [downhill] ski," he says. "I'm not so wild now. I want to go as fast as I can and still stand...