Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stride stylists influenced a line of jazz pianists from Duke Ellington and Count Basic to such modernists as John Lewis and Theolonious Monk. Yet the stride heritage is waning fast, and the Lion is as outspoken on the subject as he is on everything else. "A good many modern pianists," he snorts, "tinkle with their left hand while their right is going nowhere. Modern style, they call it; I call it cheating." But of course he is prejudiced. "There's nothing more beautiful," he believes, "than a two-fisted pianist...
Already 200,000-ton tankers ply the seas; 300,000-ton vessels are on order, and the advent of 500,000-ton jumbo tankers is fast approaching. Even under normal circumstances, such ships slowly foul the sea with oily tank washings, bilge and ballast water...
...only asset; the corporation pays his manager and all training expenses, gives Joe $100 a week plus bonuses. A 5-ft. 11½-in. 204-pounder with a crushing left hook, a swarming attack and basic notions of strategy ("I just want to put the other guy away as fast as I can"), Frazier hardly compares to Clay either in size or ability. But there are certain similarities. Like Cassius, Joe is an Olympic champion; he won the heavyweight title at Tokyo in 1964. Like Cassius, he is undefeated as a pro, and he has won practically...
Still, Washington economy watchers were in some disagreement as to how far and how fast the economy is likely to rise amid growing labor unrest and slightly rising unemployment, and with the nation's factories running at 84.7% of capacity, the lowest figure in three years. "The recovery is not going to be as prompt and vigorous as we thought," says a senior Federal Reserve Board economist. To the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the rebound looks "very satisfying-right on track." Taking a middling view, Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr said: "The economy is following our blueprint...
...finished at the top of the class in her pilot's exams-only to be turned down by Air France because long flights would be "too tough" for a woman. If a woman at the controls seemed odd to Air France, it did not to Air Inter, the fast-growing outfit that hired Jacqueline last May, and had her well up in a public-relations orbit before her first flight...