Word: catapultic
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...victory over any of these other schools will perhaps delight Tufts alumni, and even interest the most rabid sports fan--but the defeat of Harvard would catapult the Jumbos to long-sought national notice; spread the word of their prowess to every school in the East; in short, give Tufts students a feeling of achievement they couldn't receive by winning all their other games...
...drawing boards and at test centers, the Navy's jet design lagged behind the Air Force, and behind the more realistic threats of Russian aircraft. The Bureau of Ships had not kept pace: for its carriers, the Navy was forced to take over British inventions-the steam catapult, the angled deck, the mirror landing system...
...Some notable pals who walked the plank in earlier years: Cipriano Reyes, who mobilized packinghouse workers to catapult Perón to power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired...
Designed to be a fast and versatile target, the Firebee has developed into something like a guided missile. Ryan offers it as a cheap, fast bomb carrier. It can be dropped from a bomber, launched by a catapult or tossed into the. air by an auxiliary rocket. Instead of carrying a bomb, it can take a fast tour over enemy lines, return to its starting point and land by parachute. Strips of film from an automatic camera will tell an Army commander in a few minutes what the enemy...
...India (Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been connected with India for 200 years, Jim Corbett grew up in the tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track man-eaters, made his most famous kill when he got the Champawat tiger, which had eaten 436 people. He repeatedly voiced his admiration...