Word: faster
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Chinese are probably in the research and development stage of an A-bomb program. They may be able to produce a bomb within five years-faster with Soviet help...
...setter in the astonishing postwar boom that has enabled the storied country of palaces, cathedrals and antiquities to climb in industrial production to third place in Western Europe. Nearly 500,000 cars throng the streets, which are wide by Italian standards and spotlessly clean by any standards. Traffic moves faster and with better discipline than in anarchic Rome, yet the accident rate is higher. The Milanese have an explanation: local drivers and pedestrians are so engrossed in important affairs that they often forget to look where they are going...
...through blizzards with food strapped to his broad back. He is so accurate with a slingshot that he rarely has to resort to his .22-cal. pistol to kill small game. He scoffs at the idea of riding an animal up a mountain: "I can carry a damn mule faster than he can carry...
...King was working in paint chemistry at the Naval Research Laboratory when a colleague asked him why the lab's Geiger counters had recently been clicking faster after rainstorms. King collected rain water from the roof of N.R.L.'s building, found that it was slightly radioactive, suspected that the activity came from U.S. A-bomb tests in the Pacific about six months before. To make sure, he needed rain water from just after the A-bomb tests-and that meant getting some that could be certified as almost six months old. A Navy commander recalled that...
Despite his record swim last week, Steve Clark still frets about making the U.S. Olympic team: "There are five guys under 56 seconds who are bigger and stronger and maybe faster than me, and only two of us can be chosen." Most coaches agree that Clark is just beginning to break records. Says Clark himself: "I've got to gain 20 Ibs., and when I do in a couple of years I'll be at my peak." But even before he reaches that peak, he may already have become the best sprinter anywhere...