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...terradynamics"-engineers have used projectiles weighing from 5 Ibs. to 6,000 Ibs. that strike the earth vertically at speeds of from 41 m.p.h. to 1,870 m.p.h., depending on the drop altitude and method of release. Some are merely shoved out of airplanes or hovering helicopters; others are dive-bombed or rocketed to boost their velocities. The best penetrators, Sandia has found, are pencil-shaped missiles of heavy metal that are at least 8 to 10 times longer than their diameters. Some have plunged more than 200 ft. into the earth...
Murphy had been diving better than ever before. He compiled 293.8 points to win the one meter event and received scores of eight and nine on some of his dives. He was already running away with the three meter event when he reached too far for a top in his dive and failed to leave enough distance between himself and the end of the board...
Diver Bill Murphy, last year's Eastern Seaboard three meter diving champion, hit his head on the board while doing an inward flip, his fourth dive of the day, in the three meter event. The junior champion broke his nose and suffered deep cuts across the brow of his head...
Although he is all right now after spending Saturday night in the hospital in New Haven, Murphy will be unable to dive in this year's Eastern Seaboard championship which begins Thursday at Princeton. Murphy was favored to repeat as Eastern champion and had a good chance to finish high in the NCAA meet March 17 at Yale...
...ladies' cross-country skiing from a blonde Swedish snow bunny named Toini Gustafsson. A gymnastics teacher, Toini already had won the 10-kilometer cross-country; in the 5-kilometer, trailing Russia's Galina Koulakova by 4 sec. with one kilometer to go, she made a kamikaze dive down the last slope to earn a second gold medal...