Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audacious assault on the family pocketbook, U.S. food prices have been rising steeply. Consumer prices for food rose 2.3% in January and 2.4% in February-the fastest rate of gain since the Korean War. Even the most optimistic prognosticators in Washington conceded that, if nothing were done to stop the fast climb, it would continue at least until July and perhaps longer. For consumers, the problem of high and rising food prices is literally a gut issue, and they have been demanding with ever greater insistence that President Nixon clamp on controls...
...Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, Miler Marty Liquori, acting as M.C. and resplendent in his $250 tuxedo, will direct the crowd's attention to a spotlighted sprinter crouching in the blocks. "He is co-holder of the world 100-meter record, and has run the fastest 200 meters in history," Liquori will spiel. The runner tenses for an introductory dash down the board track. "Let's have a big welcome for-JOHN CARLOS...
...will officially vault into existence this Saturday night. Along with Olympian Carlos, the Big Show will feature Old Rivals Kip Keino and Jim Ryun competing in the mile, as well as Champion Shotputters Randy Matson and Brian Oldfield. Dallas Cowboys' Wide Receiver Bob Hayes, once known as the "fastest man on earth," will test his speed against Washington Redskin Defensive Back Clancy Williams in a 40-yd. sprint...
...free, which Swimming World described as "wide open," Neville's 46.37 is only fractions off Charlie Campbell's first-place time of 46.12 which the Princeton star recorded in beating Neville at the Easterns. With the graduation of Dave Edgar and Mark Spitz, the two fastest 100 men in history, Neville could make the finals in the event but he will have to drop down near the 45.6 or 45.7 area...
...help may be at hand. After five years of effort, IBM's research labs have developed an electronic switching device that can be turned on and off in less than ten trillionths of a second -more than 100 times faster than the fastest transistor used in computers. What is more, IBM's development requires only about one ten-thousandth of the power necessary to run these transistors; it gives off only a tiny fraction of the heat they radiate. And it is transistor heat as much as switching time that limits a computer's skills. For when...