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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy experts explained that the bullets left the guns at 3,000 ft. per sec. Their speed through the air (muzzle velocity plus airplane's speed) was about 4,300 ft. per sec., but friction quickly slowed them, and gravity pulled them toward the earth. If the airplane had kept its original course, it would have passed by them, but its steepened dive made it intersect their down-curving path. When it hit them, they must have been moving so slowly that the airplane overtook them at a good fraction of its own air speed, which was about...
...Olympic Team was far off form in lackluster practice meets at Berkeley, Calif. Star Sprinter Bobby Morrow finished a puffing third in one 100-meter dash, fourth in another, while University of California Alternate Leamon King has twice tied the pending world's record with 10.1-sec. wins. Said U.S. Track and Field Coach "Dink" Templeton, complaining that some of the boys apparently haven't trained all summer: "Unless they show improvement, there will be some astonishing upsets at Melbourne...
...also suspending over-the-counter trading under section 15, rule X-15C2-2." Translated, this meant that in "the public interest," and to forestall "fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative acts or practices," Sweet Grass was suspended from trading for ten days. (Toronto continued to trade the stock.) SEC scheduled a hearing to see if it should delist the stock or suspend it from trading for up to a year...
...truly wonderful article. A technical correction, however: ". . . leaving the quarterback free to block ahead of runner or tear downfield for a pass . . ." The official N.C.A.A. football rules, Rule 7, Sec. 3, Article 3b, on Eligibility to Catch a Pass, says: "Each player [is eligible] who is in an end position on the line of scrimmage and each player who is legally in his backfield and who is not in a position to receive a hand-to-hand snap from the center...
Died. Michel Detroyat, 50, flamboyant French stunt pilot who in 1932 set a record for flying upside down (26 min. 2.4 sec.), later (1936) became the first foreigner to win the UfS.'s Thompson Trophy race (at a record 264.261 m.p.h.); of a cerebral embolism; in Paris...