Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "the Observer, quickest to capitalize on 'Chichysteria,' announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer." In fact, there was no question of the Observer capitalizing on Chichester's round-the-world voyage. The Observer has been sponsoring the singlehanded transatlantic race at four-year intervals since 1960. The winner in 1960 was Francis Chichester...
...Francis' -famous landing at Plymouth last year made grappling with the elements a major British sport, followed intensely by the public and pushed hard by the press. The Observer, quickest to capitalize on "Chichysteria," announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer and attracted 35 oddly assorted entries. The winner of that tough grind was a young Cornish schoolteacher, Geoffrey Williams, who slipped into Newport, R.I., a fortnight ago after 26 days, 20 hours, and 32 minutes en route; others are still at sea. The competing Sunday Times sent four record-seeking Britons floundering by dogsled across mushy...
Kosygin did not waste the chance. After attending a wrestling performance, he appeared at a state banquet to declare that "the Soviet Union is prepared to help Iran for the quickest possible exploitation of its natural resources." He also persuaded the Iranians to quintuple their Soviet trade, making Russia their biggest customer and biggest supplier. Finally, he talked the Shah into taking Russia in as a full partner in the exploitation of vast copper and oilfields that lie in central Iran. Even for Kosygin, it was an unusually profitable trip...
...quickest way to change Lyndon Johnson's mind about a high-level appointment is to predict who the man will be. In the case of a successor to Robert McNamara, newsmen and Washington officials alike were doubly leary of trying to read the President's mind. Even so, more than a few observers were warily-and hopefully-raising the name of Cyrus Roberts Vance, the former Deputy Defense Secretary whom Johnson had drafted for an arduous diplomatic assignment in Cyprus (see THE WORLD) well after Mc-Namara's departure was decided...
More than one New York producer is dickering to bring the Hailey play to Broadway. In the future, the quickest way for a young playwright to come East may be to go West...