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...thing the officials forgot to mention was that included among the 1202 were some 70-odd football players with the hardest noses, fattest calves, roundest necks, and heaviest frames on the lightest feet of any athletes ever to set foot in the Yard...
Light Brain. One important weight saving is in the General Electric and Raytheon guidance system, the lightest ever devised for a ballistic missile. The computer, which does the missile's thinking in flight, weighs only half as much as its predecessor. But accuracy has not been sacrificed. In spite of covering a greater distance, the A-3 hits its targets more accurately than...
...carry. Jack McLean, a 160-pound scatback, runs well and is a first-class pass receiver. The line is big and fast, and the ends, Charles Greer and captain Scott Greelman, are the equals of any in the Ivy League. Bob Komives, McKinnon's replacement at center, is the lightest man in the line at 190. Curran and Keible are 220-pounders, as are the more inexperienced tackles, Jan Dephouse and Dale Runge...
...pond, the motion of the water sometimes startlingly reveals the gloomy and voracious depths beneath. The stories of Danish Author Isak Dinesen, who died last summer, are like that too. At their darkest, they open unforgettably on a decadent inner world of princely passion and atavistic fear. At their lightest, they still display a fine, curlicued surface...
...diamond cutter in a coal mine. Great tea and crumpets, the English! Sitting in the Speedway pits, Colin Chapman's tiny green Lotuses looked like go-karts next to the burly Offies. They weighed only 1,130 Ibs. compared with nearly 1,400 Ibs. for the lightest Offy. Their power plants were Ford Fairlane V-8s-souped up to 376 h.p., but with carburetors, yet-and they got their nourishment from the good old Esso pump. Their drivers: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, 27, and the U.S.'s Dan Gurney, 32, veterans of the European Grand Prix circuit...