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...Walton. The moment that happens, a U.C.L.A. player is left wide open. Another play designed to produce an open man stacks Meyers and Wilkes together to the right of the basket. This bunches the defense, setting up a "breakout" for Wilkes or Meyers, who can spring down the foul lane and take a pass from Curtis or Walton to score on a layup. Other favorite U.C.L.A. plays bring Walton out to a "high-post" position (near the foul line), opening up the middle for passes to Wilkes, Meyers or Johnson...
...West Point graduate, Wheeler began his career during construction of the Panama Canal in 1911, and in the next four decades became one of the U.S. Army's most decorated military engineers. During World War II he supervised construction of the famed Ledo Road, a military supply lane stretching through 478 miles of Asian mountains, jungles and swampland, thereby opening an overland link between India and China. Though officially retired, Wheeler was recalled to service by the U.N. following the 1956 Israeli-Egyptian war and, at age 71, directed a multinational salvage crew that within four months cleared...
Railroads, unlike the billions of dollars worth of projected expressways and airports, are already in place; tracks, roadbeds and rights of way already exist. As the authors also point out, there is no more efficient form of transportation: a six-lane highway can move 9,000 people per hour (with an average car occupancy of 1.2 per trip); a single railroad track can transport 60,000 people per hour. Travel by electric-powered train is 23 times safer than by car, 2½ times safer than by plane-and largely without sins of emission. The equipment for a revitalized rail...
Leone passed Northeastern's anchor man and broke the tape and the scoreboard indicated that the Huskies were out of reach. But a referee disqualified Buckley for stepping out of his lane and onto the inside dirt surface...
Before the Lafayette game on statewide television, there was an old "To Tell the Truth" show on. It was the one where a guy named Charlie Lane tried to not only stuff 60 raw oysters (assembled in rows of half-shells in front of him) into his mouth in 60 seconds, but also to swallow them...