Word: faster
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nuclear submarine designed for the submarine's classic role of scouting. Her job is to roam out on the surface hundreds of miles ahead of naval task forces, scanning the skies with powerful radar. She carries the biggest crew (about 150), and, powered by twin reactors, can dive faster and cruise farther than any of her nuclear sisters...
...pennant hopes, and no one knows it better than Manager Bill Rigney. Says he: "In trie past 15 years the only Giant pitcher I'd compare with Jones is Sal Maglie for getting cute, for making that ball curve or take off, and Sam is a damn sight faster...
When he began teaching English at Denver's big South High School (3,300 students) in 1935, exuberant Harold Kea-bles lived only six blocks away. It was too far. He bought a house half a block away so that he could get to school faster...
...That Crazy Lima. In San Diego, Eighth-Grader Diana Walter experimented with lima bean plants for a science class, exposed one to water and sun, another to water and popular music, found that the second plant grew faster...
Actually, options in big or established companies are often less valuable for executives than those in small firms, simply because stocks in small, vigorous companies, with a small number of shares outstanding, often rise faster. For this reason, options, notably in electronics companies (e.g., Microwave Associates, Itek Corp.), are a cheap and sometimes most effective way to lure talented scientists from big corporations that pay higher salaries. Options have also helped turn scientists, who often care little about costs, into good managers. Since Massachusetts' transistor-making Transitron Corp. (TIME, Dec. 21) granted stock options to its scientific staffers last...