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...Classics is the brainchild of former freshman hoop mentor John Harvey. At the dissolution of the J.V. program last year Harvey saw a need for providing intercollegiate competition for a significant group of varsity castoffs and ex-freshman ballplayers...
...quickly by using new jet engines and a low-wing, streamlined airframe to produce the F-80 Shooting Star, America's first operational combat jet, which became the workhorse of the Korean War. In the first all-jet air battle, it shot down a Soviet MIG-15, the brainchild of Johnson's Russian archrivals, Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. Kelly achieved an even more impressive performance from the Mach 2 F-104 Starfighter ("the missile with a man in it"), which is only now about to be phased out as NATO's dominant plane. Nor did Johnson...
...group's prospects for hanging together for five whole years. They decided that their do-it-yourself project was indeed practical. After carefully selecting a site that was suitably high, dry and far from city lights in the Los Padres National Forest near Monterey, they dubbed their brainchild MIRA-the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy...
...these shifts in approach seem to be the brainchild of Archie C. Epps III, dean of students and a member of the center's board. Epps organized this week's board meeting and has been talking for several months about operating the center like other student organizations, with undergraduate directors...
...grim-looking stockade is the brainchild of a group of Jamaican psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists. It is supposed to convey the message that crime does not pay-and apparently it has succeeded. According to police statistics, there were only eight murders by gunfire during the first three months after creation of the gun court, compared with 29 in the previous three months...