Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armstrong Circle Theater created some excitement with Five Who Shook the Mighty, a sympathetic rendering of last year's capture of the Red Rumanian legation in Bern. Switzerland, by a band of anti-Communist exiles. Although taking considerable dramatic license with the facts (e.g., the Red charge d'affaires, played by Gregory Morton, is shown as a captive, but actually escaped), the play had far more realism and bite than the usual run of TV's anti-Communist dramas. Climax! failed with its version of Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 novel. Pale Horse, Pale Rider...
...Harvard record came in the 220, where Jim Jorgensen swam a 2:06.9 to break his old mark by 0.3 seconds. He was only a tenth of a second off the league mark set by Yale's John Marshall in 1951. Breen of Courtland State (2:07.8) and Dave Armstrong of Yale (2:09.5) finished second and third...
...today, Chouteau Dyer will seek revenge against the Elis' Aubrey and Gideonse, but Keiter of Amherst (22.7) or Maxwell of UConn (22.8) might pull an upset. The same men will come back in the 100 tomorrow, with Armstrong and Cornwall of Yale, both of whom have broken 50 seconds on relay legs, complicating the picture...
...Jorgensen (2:07.2) should take the 220, with the chief competition coming from Armstrong (2:09), Drosdick of Dartmouth (2:10), and Breen of Courtland State (2:10). The 440, however, is rated a tossup between Jorgensen and Breen, both of whom have done...
...delta-wing Mirage is powered by two 2, 300-lb.-thrust Viper engines, designed by Armstrong Siddeley and made by Dassault. The plane carries a rocket with 3,500-lb. thrust for extra bursts of speed, can take off or land in less than 1,000 yards. It weighs less than five tons (v. eight tons for the Mystère), but it is sturdy enough to operate out of rough fields. The Mirage has a price tag of $300,000, about two-thirds the cost of the Myst...