Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming Downhill. In the bright sky over California's Mojave Desert, Adams unhooked from the B-52 mother ship that had carried him aloft to 45,000 ft. Then his ammonia and liquid-oxygen rocket motor ignited with 60,000 lbs. of thrust, hurtling him skyward for 80 sec. until his fuel burned out. Seconds before he glided upward to "go over the top" at his peak altitude of 261,000 ft., Adams radioed calmly to report loss of control of the X-15's pitch-and-roll dampers, twelve small rocket nozzles that guide the craft...
...Notre Dame (24-7) and Washington (23-6)-and he drawls: "Well, when I looked over our 1967 schedule last year, I told my scouts to find me a man who stood six-feet-one, weighed 205 lbs. and could run the 100-yd. dash in 9.4 sec...
...that Simpson is the only horse in the Trojan camp. He may be the fastest-last June, O.J. ran the third leg on Southern Cal's sprint relay team that set a world record of 38.6 sec. for 440 yds. But Flanker Jim Lawrence runs the 100 in 9.6 sec. End Earl McCullouch is a co-holder of the world rec ord (13.2 sec.) for the 110-meter-high hurdles. And Fullback Mike Hull, at 230 Ibs. the heavyweight of the U.S.C. backfield, has been clocked at 5.6 sec. for 50 yds. in full football gear...
...Rebound. As a result, the SEC predicts, stockbrokers' total revenues will rise from about $4 billion in 1966 to $4.5 billion this year. The SEC figures that income from commissions on security transactions should come to $2.7 billion, and profit to be divided on that income between partners, brokers and salesmen should reach $675 million, compared with $600 million in 1966. Moreover, with stock trading hitting a furious pace, SEC analysts expect a sharp rebound in the industry's aftertax profits on its main business of securities trading, which slipped from 5.8% in 1965 to 5.7% last year...
...backstairs abortion rooms have raised plenty of eyebrows: "In a culture as rich as ours, art gets bastardized. Pop artists had a keen thing going until they let the dealers in. As a result, the span of life for pop art has been cut in half." With hundreds of sec ond-rate artists now trying to cash in, Millionaire Collector John Powers warns: "It is easy to be deluded by camp followers. The public is buying a lot of bad copies of truly creative work...