Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to be 59," said Lyndon Johnson last week, "and I can't run as fast as I could when I was 40. Matter of fact, there are some other things I can't do as well as when I was 40." It has proved an important birthday for other Presidents as well. At 59, Andrew Johnson was impeached, Benjamin Harrison lost his bid for reelection, and F.D.R. brought the U.S. into World...
...satisfied. Contending that the manufacturer "should have foreseen that the auto mobile would, in fact, be driven at excessive and unlawful speed to the risk of the public," Philip Michael Schemel sued General Motors on the un usual ground of negligence in building a vehicle that would go so fast...
...antibodies and a mysterious substance called interferon. Most antibodies give lifetime immunity, but the body takes days or weeks to make them, and each type of antibody is effective against only one type of virus. The body makes interferon faster, within a few hours of exposure, but still not fast enough to keep many invading viruses from multiplying in millions of cells and causing severe illness. It is effective against the whole catalogue of viruses, but its protection may last only two or three weeks. Nevertheless, researchers believed that if they could help the system produce interferon even before exposure...
...years in reverse, American Motors Corp. last week made a move to get into high gear. Off the company's production lines in Kenosha, Wis., rolled the first Javelin specialty car, a handsome 1968-model entry that will put A.M.C. into the bustling youth market with such fast company as Ford's Mustang, Chevrolet's Camaro, Plymouth's Barracuda, Lincoln Mercury's Cougar and Pontiac's Firebird...
British Novelist Gwyn Griffin here uses a straightforward, fast-paced plot chiefly as a scaffolding from which he can poke and probe into some of the profound moral problems raised...