Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Donnelly was third, Frank Murphy was fourth, and Ian Hamilton was sixth for Jumbo Elliot's Villanova squad. Dave Patrick, who rounded out the incredible scoring quintet at 12th, is the NCAA mile champion...
...long term charter. Using the ship as collateral, he later purchased a faltering shipyard in Stavanger at a bargain price, installed oversized construction docks, then cashed in handsomely after World War II as one of the few European builders who could handle the demand for 17,000-ton jumbo tankers. He still builds for other operators as well...
...freight, now increasing one-third faster than passenger travel and promising to pass it as a source of income by 1975. Whether the airlines will have enough terminal facilities for all that business is another matter. Travelers already grumble at ticketing and baggage delays, and tomorrow's jumbo jets will require vast new ground installations that municipal airport authorities seem slow to start planning. In another use of aircraft, vertical, short-takeoff-and-landing craft and a new breed of jet helicopters (which have become highly developed in the Viet Nam war) may well provide a swift new intercity...
...Jumbos made an amazing comeback in the fourth quarter, piling up 13 points after trailing 9-0 at the half. Harvard defensive halfbacks couldn't stop Jumbo quarterback Pete Cohen's bullet short passes...
...lost five yards. And with less than 30 seconds to play, Coach Henry Lamar called pint-sized halfback John Ballantine off the bench and put him in the quarterbacking slot. With fourth and 15, Ballantine amazed everyone by squirming around left end and slithering up the middle to the Jumbo...