Word: relayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be devoted to space manufacturing -for example, the construction of large turbogenerators driven by sunlight. Much easier to build in the gravity-free environment around the colonies, these giant machines could be towed back to the vicinity of the earth, parked in fixed orbit and then used to relay the captured solar power down to earth as a beam of microwaves...
Todd Hooks came up with three strong performances for the Crimson in the 100, 220 and 440 relay. He captured a first in the 100 in 9.9 seconds and a first in the 220 in 21.6 seconds. Hooks also ran the anchor leg of the winning Harvard 440 relay team of Mark Greenberg, Mark McClain, Mike Horton, and Hooks which covered the distance in 42.5 seconds...
...relays gave the 'Cliffe its final markers of the day, with third place finishes in both the 440 relay and the medley. The foursome of Clara Tatrallyay, Michcle Holmes, Cynthia Young and Diana Gilligan snapped the 440 tape in 63 seconds, and Roxane Sismanidis teamed with Holmes, Bourgois and Campbell to finish the medley in a 2:14 clocking...
Most significant for a global fleet, Okean 1975 tested "command and control" communications networks employing satellites and satellite relay. Using a mixture of very high and very low frequencies and linking even submerged submarines, the Russian navy apparently achieved near-instant communications. That would be a considerable asset in Gorshkov's "first salvo" concept, in which scattered Soviet fleets are supposed to undertake simultaneous attacks within a 90-second period...
However, Sam Butler might well rank as the single most outstanding participant in the meet. Butler won the 440 low and 120 intermediate hurdles, and then anchored the winning Crimson mile relay, holding off B.C.'s class runner Keith Francis on the final...