Word: miles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mullin has been outstanding all year for the Freshmen, first as captain of the cross-country squad, and then as the work-horse of the indoor team. Particularly memorable was the Yale meet last February, when he and teammate Bob Knapp each ran three and one-half miles, with Mullin winning the mile and two-mile, and Knapp contributing a come-from-behind anchor leg in the two-mile relay...
Captain Harry Rich leads a strong group of runners who will back up Mullin and Beckwith. Rich and Don Kirkland will triple in the 440, 880 and mile relay, and Knapp will run in the relay, the 880, and the mile...
Lightest Peeper. The Dage Television Division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. has developed for military use the lightest portable television camera-transmitter yet offered for sale, the Tele-Tran. Weighing only 4 lbs. for the camera, plus twelve for a backpack transmitter, the assembly sends pictures to half a mile. Price...
...fishermen can blame themselves for part of the trouble. For years U.S. fleets fished with such predatory methods that the Government now permits no salmon fishing outside the three-mile limit, this year outlawed the use of fish traps at the mouth of spawning rivers. But the U.S. has no control over other nations, whose fleets catch the salmon before they ever get to Alaska waters...
...intercept the salmon as they head for Alaska spawning grounds, trap tens of millions before they can reproduce. Up to 20% of Bristol Bay red salmon runs in 1957 bore the telltale scars of long, fine-meshed Japanese gill nets, which can be strung to form a solid, ten-mile barrier across the ocean. By using these nets, say U.S. fishermen, the Japanese kill many immature, Alaska-born salmon and violate the intent of a 1953 treaty designed to prevent the Japanese from fishing for native Alaska salmon...