Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plaque. Rivers' chief complaint is that McNamara has, in many of his administrative decisions, usurped the rights of Congress. On the chairman's rostrum in his committee room he has placed a walnut plaque, inscribed in gilt lettering "U.S. Const.-Art. 1-Sec. 8. The Congress shall have Power . . . to raise and support Armies . . . provide and maintain a Navy . . . make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces...
...diagram). The plane is brought down the glide path toward the runway on radio beams from standard instrument landing equipment on the ground. From 150 ft. to 65 ft., twin computers aboard take control, directing the descent with information they have memorized and stored during the preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane down to the proper landing point on the runway. The human pilot merely controls the plane's roll and yaw. Only at touchdown does he push a button on the steering...
...Crimson has gone to the mark four times so far this year. Until the Eastern Sprint Championships last month, no one has come closer than 5 lengths. In the Stein Cup race on Boston's Charles River, Harvard shaved 10.2 sec. from the 1¾-mile course record, outpulling Rutgers and Brown by 5 lengths. A week later, on Princeton's choppy Lake Carnegie, the Cantabs knocked an incredible 20.8 sec. from the Compton Cup 1¾-mile record, swamping M.I.T. by 7 lengths and Princeton 9½ lengths. In the 1¾-mile Adams Cup regatta...
...Australia's Ron Clarke, 28: the 5,000-meter run in 13 min. 25.8 sec., clipping 7.8 sec. off his own world mark and breaking the three-mile record along the way; at the Compton Invitational track meet in Los Angeles. Clarke stole the limelight from New Zealand's Peter Snell, 26, the world record holder in the mile, who had to run a 55.1-sec. final quarter to edge Oregon's Jim Grelle with both men clocking a fast 3 min. 56.4 sec. The Aussie's great run made it four new world records...
...Grand Bahama Island and back. Driving his latest creation, Maritime, a 32-ft. aluminum hull powered by two supercharged 400-h.p. Daytona engines, Miami Designer Wynne ripped through the churning Gulf Stream at speeds up to 60 m.p.h., crossed the finish line in 3 hr. 41 min. 10 sec. to beat Don Aronow's G08-a deep-V Donzi whose fiberglass hull Wynne also helped design...