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Still, Dawkins could pass the stubby rugby ball laterally with an accuracy that amazed the experts, and when he set out for the goal line on a "try" (good for three points), he simply ran powerfully over or around anyone who got in his way. Critics cautiously pronounced his "swerve" deceptive, his "jinking" promising...
...American League's most-valuable-player award of the Baseball Writers' Association. The National League's MVP: Slugging Shortstop Ernie Banks, 28, of the fifth-place Chicago Cubs, who led the majors in runs batted in (143), finished second in the majors in home runs (45), set a league fielding record for shortstops (.985), became the first player ever to win the award two years running...
...tried by the champion Boston Celtics could stop the Minneapolis Lakers' agile, husky (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.) Elgin Baylor from pouring in 64 points to give his team a home-court 136-115 victory, break by one point the scoring record of the National Basketball Association set in 1949 by Philadelphia's jump-shooting Joe Fulks...
Three years ago, Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass, set out to see what it could do to cure these shortcomings. Its scientists started with the knowledge that when carbon-rich gases are put in a lab furnace and decomposed by high heat, they sometimes deposit carbon in the form of a peculiarly dense graphite. At first this stuff was only a laboratory curiosity, and for a long time no one made it in quantity or thoroughly tested its properties. But after considerable experimentation, Raytheon's furnaces yielded a hard, impermeable, layered material that looks like black porcelain. Called Pyrographite...
...national tidal wave that has nearly doubled museum space since World War II, has found art societies and institutes sprouting in towns that once would have been hard pressed to support a framing shop. Phoenix itself started modestly enough when, in 1915, the Woman's Club set up an Art Exhibition Committee to improve the quality of art shown at the Arizona State Fair. Even as late as 1940, Art Patroness Maie Bartlett Heard gave the city nearly a full city block for a civic center, only to find Phoenix citizens willing to contribute less than a third...