Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard swimmers will be racing at full strength. Although it was not reflected by the score, the team had its best performance of the season against Princeton. All five of the Crimson's first-place finishers last Saturday swam their fastest times this year...
...pets in diagnosing and treat ing mentally disturbed children. But man has become neurotic, she contends, when owners take pet alligators for drives, buy hairpieces for dogs and lacetrimmed nightgowns for cats, give the puma a pint of beer as a nightcap, and make unnecessary gourmet viands the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. petfood market. Some owners bury their canaries and pooches under massive marble tombstones in special cemeteries. Only last week, an Italian court ruled that a wife was justified in leaving her husband because he regularly shared his bedroom with 30 cats and six dogs while forcing...
...fastest-growing major crime in the U.S. is not murder, rape or mayhem. It is bank robbery, an increasing frustration for the nation's moneymen. The problem extends from Washington, D.C., where a bank 100 yards from the White House grounds was looted last December, to North Hollywood, Calif., where one bank was recently hit twice in the same day. Last year U.S. banks reported 1,840 robberies, four times the number in 1960. The average bank robber is a lone amateur in his mid-30s. He has an 86% chance of fleeing the bank, but the FBI says...
Inflationary Strains. The U.S. economy is indeed moving much too fast for its own good, and three Washington reports last week reflected the resulting strains. They showed the fastest price escalation since 1951, the lowest export surplus since the Depression and the highest interest rate on a Government security since the Civil War. The Labor Department reported that in December, consumer prices rose to a point 4.7% above the same month in 1967. That was the sharpest year-to-year increase since prices rose by 5.8% in the first winter of the Korean War. For 1968 as a whole...
Crimson ace Keith Colburn, who clocked the fastest collegiate 1000 of the season several weeks ago, will by-pass the GBC's to run his specialty in an open meet in New York. His roommates Royce Shaw and Erik Roth will substitute in the 1000 with Shaw aiming to double-up in the mile. B.U.'s Pete Hoss and Northeastern's Larry Joseph will also be shooting for the mile record of 4:15.4, posted by Shaw in last year's meet...