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Overall, even with a healthy squad, the thinclads will need some help from the freshmen if they're going to live up to McCurdy's prophecy. With the graduation of captains David Frim, Marc Chapus, and John Murphy, the team is particularly vulnerable in the short distances and the mile relay...
McLaughlin wasn't far wrong in his dire prediction, with the Crimson making the long trip out to California look like a 6000-mile suicide drill, falling to Stanford, 93-70, before a crowd of 3000 at the Cardinals' Maples Pavilion...
...Soviet missiles are more of a mixed bag. The clumsy, inaccurate SS-4, first deployed in 1959, has a range of 1,200 miles and a single, one-megaton warhead. The obsolescent SS-5 can throw its megaton warhead some 2,500 miles. But the SS-20, with its 3,000-mile range, is a formidable weapon. Each of its three, separately targetable 150-kiloton warheads is accurate within...
...diplomats' term for this fate is "Finlandization," a reference to the policy of accommodation with Moscow that Finland, which shares a 788-mile border with the U.S.S.R., has perforce adopted since the end of World War II (see following story). In essence, Europe would check with the giant looming over...
...some degree, performing various types of remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep in the history of earth-sensing, gathering one series of pictures over a 10,000-mile-long track, stretching from Spain to Australia...