Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With defenseman Chip Scammon side-lined tonight with a virus, Pres Wolcott will probably join John Daly, Bob Clark, and Bob Coleman in Harvard's rear guard. Although the defense is the strongest part of this year's team, it had trouble Wednesday in clearing the puck from the fast and bruising Northeastern forwards. But Daly and Clark both proved themselves excellent body-checkers last year, and should be able to handle most comers...
...hour, the skies over Stanleyville had pulsed with airplane engines and apprehension. Watchers on the rooftops saw parachutes bloom and fall over the airfield to the west; gunfire ticked closer in the near distance. The Belgians had come, and help for the hostages was on its way-fast, but for many not fast enough...
...Bureau of Commercial Fisheries hung on the mouth of a big submerged trawl and took movies of fish as they were caught. The net moved through the water as slowly as 2 m.p.h., a pace that most fish can exceed with ease. But the skindivers learned that, fast as fish are, most of them are too lazy to take evasive measures. They swim languidly for a while to keep ahead of the net, but eventually they tire and drift back into its maw. After that, they are stuffed into its trailing "cod end," from which there is no escape...
Plenty for King Idris. No such political quicksand threatens oilmen in Libya, where relations with the government have been stable and happy (with fifty-fifty profit-sharing) ever since Standard of New Jersey brought in the first big field in 1959. Since then, output has shot up so fast that Libya now ranks eighth among the world's oil-producing nations, and this year's $250 million oil income will account for 80% of King Idris' revenues. Of 20 companies active in Libya, 13 are American...
Crashes occur when the skier is trying to do something that is too difficult and too fast for his capabilities. Obviously, it is necessary to know what skiing involves before you take to the slopes. Fortunately, there are many simple booklets available to the novice and he should read some of them at the outset of his skiing career rather than while he is waiting for his broken leg to heal...