Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tokyo, Schollander outclassed the rest of the world in the 100, 200, and 400-meter freestyle events and anchored the U.S. team to victory in the free relay. Last Saturday, in a crucial meet against Princeton, he showed he was a fast as ever...
...develop real industrial muscle. What most worries the have-nots is that the treaty's stipulations might impede their atomic progress; what most worries the U.S. and Russia is that each advance brings the have-nots closer to an atomic-weaponry potential. West Germany has a new "fast-breeder" reactor that generates electricity-and produces enough plutonium to build 36 A-bombs of Hiroshima firepower per year. According to some estimates, India's one existing reactor and three abuilding ones will make enough fissionable fuel for India to produce 15 bombs of 20-kiloton strength by 1990. France...
...measure had been in the works for more than three years, had the backing of both Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 74, and the Vatican. Yet as recently as three weeks ago, it was shelved by Franco after the Cabinet split over whether it gave non-Catholics too much freedom too fast. It was then revised and toned down in some parts to meet with the approval of the Conservatives, who reluctantly began to realize that, in any case, the bill was not only necessary for Spain's image but was quite inevitable as well...
Down-Under Glider. The also-flowns were as notable as the winners. One contestant sent in a dollar bill folded into a glider with the explanation: "It goes fast." There was a flying-saucerlike "Frisbee Flyer"-two paper plates and an infinitesimal folded fleck of foil only one-eighth of an inch long by one-sixteenth of an inch wide-made, appropriately, by Aerospace Corp.'s Space
...film makers have more recently revived themselves by selling movie rights to TV; last fall MGM leased 63 films to CBS for an average of $800,000 each. With potential riches even greater, prudent movie executives recognize the need to ration their film stockpiles instead of depleting them too fast. Because old movies have become such valuable-and easily disposable-assets, Hollywood's film companies are particularly wary of takeover bids by outsiders eager to turn a quick profit...