Word: 22nd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale, in spite of staggering graduation losses, gains Olympian Don Schollander and will dominate the League for the 22nd time in the last 23 seasons. Navy and Princeton lost nothing from the two teams that tied Harvard for third in the Eastern Swimming League last year, while Army and Dartmouth are both improved. If Harvard's sophomore freestylers don't come through, it could be a long wet season...
...going, he must have wondered why nobody talked to him in the dugout. He struck out the side in the eighth, again in the ninth, and when he fogged one last fast ball past Pinchhitter Harvey Kuenn, he danced a little jig on the mound. He had won his 22nd game, 1-0. His 14 strikeouts gave him a total of 332 for the season-just 16 shy of Bob Feller's alltime record. More important, he had become the eighth man in modern baseball history to pitch a perfect game, 27 men up, 27 men down...
...tape recorder might have gone haywire during part of its historic pass at the red planet. As soon as the eleventh picture came through, JPL monitors knew that all was well. Mariner got all the 21 pictures it went after-plus a bonus: 22 lines of a 22nd picture, which might show the dark edge of Mars...
...their 22nd revolution, White and McDivitt broke the American record in space-34 hr. 20 min.-set by Gordon Cooper's Faith 7 flight on May 15, 1963. "I would like to congratulate you on the new American space-flight record," said the controller in Houston...
...This was no problem for the 21st Amendment; it swept through in less than ten months for the happy reason that it repealed the 18th. Fastest of all: the twelfth (separate electoral vote for President and Vice President), which in 1804 set the record of 187 days. Slowest: the 22nd (limiting Presidents to two terms) which took almost four years to get the nod in 1951. Newest of all: the 24th (barring poll taxes in federal elections), ratified 13 months ago. The U.S. Constitution is so hedged against change, yet so open to new interpretation, that lawyers and scholars favor...