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Grocery Cart. The Gold Cup's eventual winner was no surprise to the fans. In three furious heats, Hometown Driver Bill Muncey, 33, pushed his orange and white Miss Century 21-owned by Seattle's Willard Rhodes, head of the Thriftway grocery chain-to an average speed of 100 m.p.h. for the 90 miles, deftly sliding around the hazardous turns, hanging on for dear life in the booming straights. Grinned Muncey, as he climbed out of the boat, "That's the fastest little grocery cart in town...
...found. By measuring the amount of potassium 40 and its decay product, argon 40, in a digger's find, scientists conceivably can fix an object's age at 50 million years, with a probable error of less than 2%. The radioactive carbon dating system, for which Dr. Willard Libby won a Nobel Prize in 1960, reaches back for only 50,000 to 60,000 years...
When asked to characterize the present state of the economy-is it good? will it get worse?-the men who are closest to it take refuge in jargon. Economist George Cloos of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank prefers that ripe-sounding phrase "high-level stagnation." Swift & Co. Economist Willard Arant calls it "high-level stability." Professor J. Keith Butters of the Harvard Business School thinks that the economy is in "a sidewise movement" after "an inadequate recovery." One top corporate economist calls the present economy "a rolling kind of thing"; another figures it is in "a sputtering phase"; and still...
Undoubtedly the most successful supermarketeer in Europe is Toronto-born Willard Garfield Weston, 64, a philanthropic, publicity-shy millionaire who controls the U.S.'s National Tea Co. and Britain's huge Allied Bakeries. In the last five years, Weston has built a chain of 236 supermarkets in Britain, is adding to it at the rate of three new stores a week, and intends soon to absorb two grocery chains in France...
Erika Spivakovsky will study 16th century Spanish history; Virginia C. Watkin, a lawyer, will analyze the systems of taxation currently in use in various Latin American countries; Jean Huleatt Wheeler will specialize in political science, and charity Willard will study medieval European literature...