Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is one kind of saloon where the post-college girl in her 20s enters without trepidation-although having a roommate along helps. This is the fast-growing institution known as the "dating bar," which deliberately seeks the patronage of single males and females by providing the ambiance of a cocktail party mixed with the nostalgic roar of a fraternity blast...
Economic Spectrum. The fast-rising charges mean that most public-university students must now work part-time or seek scholarship help to stay in school. This reflects the fact that the public colleges and universities draw students from a far broader range of economic levels than do the private schools-even those that are liberal with scholarships. More than a fourth of the freshmen at private universities come from families whose annual incomes exceed $20,000, while 27.8% of public freshmen come from families earning less than $6,000. Officials of public universities are overwhelmingly convinced that tuition must...
...acquired a Univac 494 geared to a 20 million-shares-a-day market. When that day comes, it will be interesting to see how the New York Stock Exchange itself chooses to cope with it. On busy days, its two-year-old ticker already flashes stock transactions as fast as the human eye can read them-and yet this year it has run as many as 19 minutes behind...
Hold the Line. The Administration's reaction, when it came at midweek, did not seem as fast - or as fierce - as in past price-increase attempts. Messages to the major suppliers did not come directly from the White House or the CEA but from Acting Interior Secretary Charles F. Luce, who mentioned "press reports" of the hikes and urged that they be rescinded in view of "the national interest in stable prices." To companies that had not yet followed the increases, including Humble Oil, went requests to "hold the line...
Henjyoji's problem is that word travels fast around the league. Opponents enter matches determined not to let him get the cradle. They cross their legs at the ankles--this is while they're on the mats of course--or they struggle to keep him from locking his hands if he does manage to slip his arm around their...