Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tackle: Jim Marshall, 20, Ohio State; 6 ft. 3 in., 222 lbs. Junior. Major: physical education. Fine blocker, fast-reacting on defense, has speed enough to outrun many backs, performed an incredible feat for a lineman against Purdue by running for two touchdowns with a blocked punt and an intercepted pass; a probable high pro choice next year...
Guard: Roger Duone ("Zeke") Smith, 21, Auburn; 6 ft. 2 in., 215 lbs. Junior. Major: education. Alert, fast, hard charger; eyed as another good pro linebacker, considered by some scouts the best lineman...
Halfback: Billy Cannon, 21, Louisiana State; 6 ft. 1 in., 197 lbs. junior. Major: pre-dentistry. Still a year away from pro draft but already considered fast, powerful, brilliant enough to move into starting halfback spot on most any pro team...
...first time in history, two of the nation's four biggest airlines were downed by strikes-and a third was losing altitude fast. At Eastern Air Lines, 5,383 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out, along with 550 Eastern flight engineers. The Eastern strike and the walkout of machinists at Trans World Airlines (TIME, Dec. 1) shut down close to one-third of the nation's air transport system; 388 planes were grounded, and the 32,000 passengers they normally carry each day had to scramble to find other transportation. To make matters worse...
...year jet pay, have already forced a slowdown in jet schedules to Europe because they refuse to fly without a jet-age contract. To fill in. Pan Am has drafted 19 pilot-executives, who are not active members of A.L.P.A. But the executives are fast approaching their flying-time limits of 255 hours a quarter, and further schedule cuts may soon be necessary. The pilots' pay is already well above that of many executives. Assistant Vice President for Communications Waldo Lynch, who is filling in as a pilot, gets $22,658 a year, or about $2,000 less than...