Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shots & Sketches. The hero is a boy scout Faustus who has voluntarily put aside his all-powerful magic ring of alchemized gold. But he happens to be working as a tutor to the Princess Margaret in the Irish castle of the lusty Queen Katherine. The Queen has become ravenous with desire for her dead husband, who has turned into a vampire. She arranges the theft of Faustus' ring and vamps the vampire, turning him back temporarily into human flesh...
...Distributed throughout the city were brochures with this message in various forms, and posters of children playing, with the caption "Keep Dallas Safe for Them, Avoid Violence." The agency prepared a film, "Dallas at the Crossroads," every propaganda angle possible--from the birth of a baby to a Boy Scout flag parade. Dallas facilities were desegregated without incident that fall...
Besides the six Project satellites, the Observatory group has provided instruments for a number of short rocket flights. Last summer an Air Force "Blue Scout" carried a Project radio receiver to an altitude of 1,100 miles. The receiver made important observations of the radiation from our galaxy and of radio radiation from the earth itself. Just how terrestrial radio waves originate and are propagated is one of the questions the Project hopes to answer with the new equipment...
...GUARDS: Bob Brown, 21, Nebraska, 6 ft. 5 in., 269 lbs.; and Herschel Turner, 21, Kentucky, 6 ft. 3 in., 226 lbs. "Pro football is a game of specialists," says one pro scout, "but these days, with so many players getting hurt, you've also got to find someone who can play more than one position." Nebraska's Brown is that someone. On offense, he leads the interference for a Cornhusker backfield that has averaged 270 yds. per game on the ground-tops in the nation. On defense, he is an agile, wide-ranging guard or linebacker...
...Says a report on Eller: "Tends to be lazy, but seems to play his best games when head-to-head with another outstanding lineman. Can go to 275 lbs." On Appleton: "Great lateral moves and pursuit. Almost impossible to knock off his feet." Also ranked high on the pro scouts' list are two small-college tackles: Buffalo's Gerry Philbin, 22 (6 ft. 2 in., 235 lbs.) and Louisville's Ken Kortas, 21 (6 ft. 4 in., 293 lbs.). "When a kid weighs as much as Kortas," says one scout, "you can't afford to overlook...