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DIED. WILLIAM PICKERING, 93, former head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who oversaw the first launch of a U.S. spacecraft into orbit; in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. The quiet giant of the U.S. space program from 1954 to 1976, during the height of its space race with the Soviet Union, Pickering emigrated from New Zealand to study electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology...
...tournament berth for the first time since 1962. Air Force hasn't even had a winning season since '78. One reason is its tough league--the Mountain West Conference, dominated by teams like Utah and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Another major handicap: the Air Force places a height limit on recruits who want to become pilots, which eliminates most players over 6 ft. 8 in. (The actual measure is sitting height, which allows for some variation; the team's tallest player is 6 ft. 9 in.--smaller than most college big men.) The school must also persuade athletes...
...fact that she works so hard to be an offensive rebounder even when she doesn’t have the height to do it is a statement about what a blue-collar worker she is,” says Delaney Smith...
...high jump, the Crimson’s other athlete, freshman Sandra Stankovic, another young standout of the indoor season, failed to reach the first height...
With a leap of 14.38m, sophomore Samyr Laine captured 13th in the Men’s triple jump. In the high jump, classmate Clifford Emmanuel was not able to clear the preliminary height of 2.06 meters...