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...Guardia operator watched his screen helplessly, the two blips continued for a second or so on collision course. Then there was one pinpoint where there had been two: the TWA signal had vanished from the radar screen, and the second blip crept on its northeasterly course for eight miles. Then it, too, disappeared...
...over the Los Angeles Rams to clinch the National Football League's Western title. Next week in the league-championship game against the East's Philadelphia Eagles, the Packers will match the power game of Halfback Paul Hornung and Fullback Jim Taylor against the pinpoint passing of nerveless Eagle Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin...
...whom the opposing defensive pros would best like to bury is the Baltimore Colts' Lenny Moore (6 ft. 1 in., 190 Ibs.), the most dangerous scoring threat in the league because he is the deep man for the pinpoint passes of Quarterback Johnny Unitas. Among the Colts, Moore is nicknamed "Spats" because he strengthens his spindly shanks with rolls of white tape before each game. The tape helps Moore cut for a pass faster than anyone in the N.F.L. Waiting for Moore to pivot and go, a defensive halfback often watches his feet for the telltale "plant step...
...ship must know its exact location. The complicated celestial-periscope system has 80,000 components and must be kept working to perfection. The periscope runs a constant double check on the Cadillac-sized SINS (ship's inertial navigation system), which tracks the sub's underwater course with pinpoint accuracy. The missiles are housed gently in their tubes in the compartment that the submen call "Sherwood Forest." They must be wet-nursed hour by hour, their computers prepared to receive fire-control data, their gyros kept warmed and ready, their switches checked and rechecked so that they...
...degree of artery disease, but those who finally learn of their illness usually do so the hard way-with a heart attack or a stroke. And because doctors have been unable to look into the body and watch the small coronary arteries work, they have also been unable to pinpoint blockages and accurately determine the extent of artery disease...