Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perils of the impending moon flight in a SCIENCE cover story written by Associate Editor Leon Jaroff (TIME, Dec. 6), who also wrote this week's story of the astronauts' flight. To cover the shot, Houston Bureau Chief Don Neff, Washington Correspondent David Lee and Houston Stringer Jim Schefter, all veterans of earlier and less ambitious shots, filed from location. Lee and Schefter stayed at Cane Kennedy until the successful liftoff; then Schefter piloted them by private plane to Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, thus escaping the massive migration of newsmen that jams transportation to Houston after...
...View from 207,000 Miles During the second of the two telecasts on their outward journey, the as tronauts managed to send back some spectacular views of the earth - from a distance of 207,000 miles. Jim Lovell acted as commentator of the show. "In the center," he explained, "is South America - all the way down to Cape Horn. I can see Baja California and the Southwestern part of the U.S. There is a big cloud bank going northeast of the U.S. It appears now that the East Coast is cloudy. I can see clouds over parts of Mexico...
...Johnson's defeat of the white ex-champion, Jim Jeffries, touched off race riots in U.S. cities that resulted in six deaths...
...become a real pro star. Sellers, the top college receiver this season, with 86 receptions, is a swift, shifty end already running the kind of pass patterns the pros prize. His strongest asset: "a complete disregard for personal welfare when going after the ball." A close runner-up is Jim Seymour, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 4 in., 205 Ibs. Though a few pro teams question his speed, one scout lauds his "knack of keeping his eyes on the defender and on the ball at the same time...
...CORNERBACKS: Jim Marsalis, Tennessee State, 6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.; and Tom Maxwell, Texas A & M, 6 ft. 2 in., 192 Ibs. After four years of playing man-for-man defense-a rarity among college teams-Marsalis figures to make the transition into the pros with ease. He has "sprinter's speed plus the mean streak you need to play corner." Maxwell, in the terse, tight lingo of the scouting reports, is: "Fast, with good hands. Covers a lot of ground. Likes to play it tight. Tough." If he were not a junior, another top contender is Jake...