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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached $60.6 billion, a 16.7% increase over the year before. As the Administration saw it, this was too much, and the credit was suspended. Early estimates for 1967 said that even so, investment would rise an other 6%. But last month, with the tax credit removed, a Commerce Department-SEC survey showed that business men had cut their spending plans for 1967 by $2.3 billion. And a similar survey released last week disclosed that the year's increase in capital spending would probably be 3.9% rather than 6% - or enough to knock half a billion dollars off the first...
Only four men have ever run the 100-meter dash faster than the San Jose (Calif.) State College senior, who has clocked 10.1 sec. (the world record is 10 sec. flat); the 100 is not even his specialty. Only a handful can long-jump farther; Smith has done 26 ft. 10 in. unofficially, even though he has never practiced the event. In the 220-yd. dash, nobody comes anywhere close. Last spring in San Jose, Tommie ran the 220 on a straight course in 19.5 sec., clipping .5 sec. off Dave Sime's ten-year-old world record...
...University of Kansas' Jim Ryun, 19, world record holder in the half-mile (1 min. 44.9 sec.) and mile (3 min. 51.3 sec...
...delay in the transmission and receipt of telemetry signals becomes a distinct drawback. "Realtime" human activity is impossible. If a telefactor operating on the surface of Mars were to spot a Martian running by, for example, its TV picture-traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.)-would take about three minutes to reach the headset of its controller when Mars is closest to earth. Even if the controller were to respond immediately by reaching out to grab the Martian, another three minutes would elapse before his telemetered signals caused the telefactor to make its grab...
Colburn can run shorter distances too. He anchored the mile relay team that won the BAA's last month in 3:23.3 by running a sub-50 sec. quarter. And he proved he can run longer distances this fall by shattering cross-country records on three-mile courses...