Word: inchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practiced. By the morning of March 4, there were only two fish left in his aquarium: a two-incher and a four-incher. The two-incher was downed during the day. At 6:30 that evening, before a large crowd at the Union, he swallowed the four-incher. The crowd cheered. The Boston press heard. The wire services picked it up. Goldfish swallowing spread...
...freshmen were among the challengers. Two months after he swallowed the four-incher, Lothrop Withington and ten others, including Endicott Peabody II, complained that the Houses were rejecting the leaders of the freshman class and accepting mediocre upperclassmen. They were going to fight for a strict merit system...
...have always argued that solid-fuel rockets can be increased in size much more easily than engines that burn liquids. Solid fuels, in fact, have been the backbone of U.S. military missile power ever since the success of Polaris and Minuteman. Built for the Air Force, the U.A.C. 120-incher is part of Titan III, which will consist of Martin Marietta Corp.'s liquid-fueled Titan II rocket, already operational, with two of the new solid-fuel boosters to help it into space with 2,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...eminent whiz kid? Alain Enthoven was born in Seattle, the son of a French mother and a British father with a Dutch name. He majored in economics at Stanford, went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and, as a lanky 6-foot 4-incher, rowed No. 4 on the New College crew. As a mathematician and economist he spent four years with California's think factory, the Rand Corp., just pondering military strategy. And then, in 1960, he went to the Pentagon...
Inman started in the right corner, but didn't hit his stride till midway in the ason. He has quick moves for a 6 ft., 5 incher, and handles himself well outside under the basket. The third star was captain Sid Davis, a 5 ft., 10 in. guard who es just about everything which budding Bob Cousys dream about. Besides his e outside shooting, Davis is an expert ball-handler, an ability that was noticeable its absence on the varsity this year...