Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when you're 25, personable, and a full-fledged millionaire. But it has been for Jack Nicklaus, who has never attracted the enthusiastic throngs who root for his rivals. "I don't know why," he puzzles. "Maybe people resented my coming up so young and winning so fast...
...Ridiculous. The new store is the latest addition to a fast-growing, American-owned international supermarket chain called Minimax (for "minimum prices, maximum quality"). Minimax is devoted to the idea that the emerging consumer class in Europe and elsewhere strongly wants such Yankee selling innovations as self-service, the checkout counter, prepackaged and frozen foods, big stores and plenty of parking space-and it tries to give them what they want in each of its 19 stores. Sometimes the buyers are so eager for American goods that they act a bit ridiculous. Last week's shoppers...
...that people are alike all over the world. We weren't wrong then, and we still haven't been proved wrong." The Brandon brothers have been helped, of course, by their flair for promotional showmanship and their insistence that their stores mark prices low enough to ensure fast turnover (the new Rome store's expected gross this year: $5,000,000). After only a year, Minimax is well on its way to becoming one of the largest retail food chains in Europe. The Brandon brothers plan eventually to spread north to the even more lucrative markets...
...most decided advantage for the Quakers will be the home courts, which are hard and fast. The Harvard players on the whole play a slow-court game relying on steady ground strokes to win. The Penn players, however, are the boom-boom type with blasing serves and blast tactics: just the style for hard courts...
...order to adjust to the power game Harvard coach Jack Barnaby has been practicing his team on hard courts where he held a series of test matches to decide the "fast surface lineup...