Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to say just what will happen when the new SEC rule takes effect. Current speculations are that girls will probably participate on swimming, tennis, and golf teams, with perhaps a few trying track and field in mixed competition. These estimates, however, seem conservative. The schools of the conference have a combined student body of well over 100,000, and it seems more than likely that at least one girl will be zany enough to go out for football or basketball. There is nothing in the rules to stop them; the major difficulty might be arranging separate (but equal) locker...
...basket, Illinois put the ball in play. The pass went to Starnes, who dribbled across the free-throw line, leaped into the air and-as if putting the shot-threw the ball blindly toward the Northwestern basket 55 ft. away. Starnes looked quickly at the clock; it showed 1 sec. left in the game. The final buzzer sounded, and Starnes glanced back toward the basket. At that instant-swish!-the ball dropped through the net. Players stood rooted to the floor in astonishment...
...Hands. If the word resists such straightforward treatment, the computer consults a dictionary of up to 300.000 words recorded on magnetic disks or tape. If the troublesome word is in the recorded dictionary, the computer is told how to hyphenate it in about eighty one-thousandths sec. If not. the computer gives up. chops it arbitrarily in two and leaves any errors to be corrected by a proofreader. Generally the machine hums along for long periods without being stumped, justifying 3 lines per sec. At this rate, it handles an 8-column newspaper page of solid print...
...ignited at the same instant. The trapped combustion gases will produce a pressure of 500 lbs. per sq. in. that will drive the rocket upward with 3,600,000 lbs. of thrust and about 35 Gs of acceleration. It should reach the end of the tube in 1,205 sec. Air pressure will open the doors to let it pass, and it will pop out with the respectable speed of 1,000 m.p.h. Only 2,500 lbs. of its own fuel will have burned, and it will be moving so fast that its engine will have excellent propulsive efficiency...
...windswept East London track at speeds up to 145 m.p.h., won the 196.8-mile race by 1 min. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, who needed a victory in South Africa to beat Hill for the title, almost got it: with the race three-quarters over, he led by 25 sec.-only to be forced to the pits when his grass green Lotus sprang an oil leak. Hill's victory (four firsts, two seconds, one fourth in nine races) marked the first time that a British driver has won the world championship behind the wheel of a British...