Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Murrin and Haise eventually took third place in their classes, helping to boost Syracuse to a 65-point total and the tournament team championship. Lehigh, last year's champion, was second with 59 points...
...traditional coolness toward solid-propellant boosters. Its ambitious Apollo program to land men on the moon by 1970 is based on North American's liquid-fueled F-l engine, which generates only 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Five Fls will have to be clustered together to boost the Apollo rocket off the ground...
Canham hopes that the changes that he and his staff have been perfecting for the past 2½ years (TIME, Jan. 8), will boost the Monitor's sagging circulation and put the paper, now subsidized by the Mother Church, on a self-sustaining basis. Other changes are planned, though one area of the paper is sure to remain the same: liquor and cigarette ads will continue to be banned, along with pictures of people smoking or drinking. Obituaries and the word death will appear as rarely as ever...
...Congress tried to give the feds a boost by passing a law that creates a presumption of guilt for anyone caught near a moonshiner's place of business. Unless he has a good alibi, "such presence of the defendant shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize his conviction." Last week that law came before the Supreme Court in the case of Jackie Gainey, a Georgia moonshiner who had been nabbed near a still. Upholding the law 8 to 1, the court, in a majority opinion by Justice Potter Stewart noted that moonshiners are "notorious for the deftness with which...
...season's scoring honors went to sophomore Pete Waldinger, who picked up a goal and two assists against Yale in the last game of the year to boost his point total to 21. For the third straight year, a frustrated Baldy Smith finished second, scoring two goals in each of the last two games to reach 20 points for the season. Waldinger and sophomore Dennis McCullough led in goals with nine apiece; Smith captured assist honors with...