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...ninth pro fight. Stan's way led to top marks at mostly Negro David Starr Jordan High School, thence to a full athletic scholarship at Whittier College, where his size (6 ft. 4 in.. 204 Ib.) and blinding speed (9.8 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) made him an All-America end in small-college football. He also kept A-minus grades in his political science major, was student-body president. Turning down pro football offers, Stan will pursue Oxford's famed "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), aims to become a lawyer. He is Whittier's first...
...world watched Mariner II. Careful measurements showed that it would pass about 21,000 miles from the planet; but space, with its sucking vacuum, fierce radiation and gnawing micrometeoroids, is a hostile environment for man's machines. No one could be sure that when Mariner II made its dash past Venus it would be in shape to report what its instruments saw there...
Dirt on the windshield is seldom important. Far worse for the driver's safety is light reflected off the top of the dash board and back into the driver's eyes. Such reflections can be dangerously confusing Dr. Allen showed a photograph taken through the windshield of a car equipped with a light-absorbing black velveteen covering on its dashboard. A near by pedestrian was clearly visible. Another photo, taken after the velveteen was removed, glittered with reflections that hid the pedestrian from the driver...
...cars tested by Dr. Allen had bright chromium trim in the driver's held ot vision. Even small bits of brightwork, such as chromium windshield wipers or decorations on the dash, can reflect sun light and cause spots of glare. Attempts to express the space age in instrument panels end with the instruments poorly grouped. Their needles or other indicators are hard for many drivers to see Many new car models share a common feature: a hood that covers the instrument panel so that its lights will not reflect at night in a stylishly sloping windshield. Under many daytime...
Awori, although he didn't run in the mile relay, handily won both of his usual events. He took the 40-yd. hurdles in :05.3 and the dash...