Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown, forcing the Crimson to shot from the outside, piled up most of its points on driving layups and the foul shots that this type of play makes possible. It was able to do this by spreading its men wide and making them cut for the basket. Because they wore smaller and faster than the losers, the Bruins got men free for easy shots that could only be stopped by fouling...
Last week prison officials put René and another prisoner into a tiny compartment in a type of prison van known as a "salad basket." With two armed guards sitting in the central aisle outside René's cell and another riding up front, the salad basket started off to the hospital prison at Fres-nes. They were in sight of the hospital when one of the guards looked back and saw a man rolling in the road behind. "Stop!" he called to the driver, "you've hit someone!" The van pulled to a halt. The guards leaped...
...attention. A Watertown, Mass, businessman (advertising manager for Hood Rubber Co.) five days a week, Swaffield has spent most of his football-season Saturdays for 24 years learning to be both omnipresent and inconspicuous. He was never a college football star himself, though he did earn baseball and basket letters at Brown ('16) and played enough football to get "the feel" of it. Like his fellow officials, he started with high school and frosh games, graduated in time to the college circuit. This year, for the first time in his career, Swaffield drew the top assignment in the control...
Obsolete Pilots. Nevertheless, Kindelberger thinks the piloted airplane itself is rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...
Although Tech averaged about two inches shorter per man, the Crimson ball-handling was superior. Bill Hickey, Forrest Hanson, and Bob Bramhall out-fought the Engineers, and were consistently able to pass the ball in to Lionette in the bucket or a free man underneath the basket...