Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third quarter, the Cliffie sextet suddenly got hot. Penetrating the tight Wheaton two-two zone defense. Miss Querbridge drove the baseline for a two-pointer, then fed teammate Policy Quick for a score which put Radcliffe only three points behind. Miss Querbridge's lay up in the wanning moments of the quarter made...
...Saturdays are not so bad; the cruising sniffer can drive all the way downtown without seeing the needle push above 40 p.p.m. During weekday rush hours, though, it sometimes hits a peak of 120 p.p.m. "It is most exciting," says Haagen-Smit. "You get behind another car, and the pointer goes way up, especially where you have a slowdown of traffic." Top readings come at the nightmarish interchanges, where curling roadways tangle like spaghetti on a fork and hundreds of car engines pant in frustration. "Tunnels and depressions concentrate the carbon monoxide," says the professor, "but in that interchange area...
...Chairman Earle Gilmore Wheeler, 57, is a handsome, strapping West Pointer who, with the exception of five months in a World War II combat area, has served his entire Army career at desk jobs far removed from battlefields. A onetime math instructor at the academy, Wheeler still doodles with algebraic equations during J.C.S. sessions. As director of the Joint Chiefs' staff, he was assigned in 1960 to brief Presidential Candidate John Kennedy on military developments; his performance led to his appointment by Kennedy as Army Chief of Staff in 1962. In that job, he won McNamara's favor...
BRANDED (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Premiere of a new series starring Chuck Connors as a West Pointer who is unjustly discharged from the Army for cowardice...
...utter collapse. The exhausted Crimson team threw the ball away seven times in the next four minutes. UConn's brilliant shooters, Dan Hesford and Wes Bialosuknia sank 20-foot jumpers; Ron Ritter scored on a tip-in; Hesford stole the ball from Leo Scully and made an easy two-pointer which put UConn alead, 67-59, with six minutes to play...