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Hoping to exhaust the thin Columbia forces, coach John Yovicsin plans to play both the first and second units an equal amount of time. As the Lions do only about two things well--slant off tackle and race downfield for Roberts' passes--fresh line units should have a definite advantage...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Varsity Must Beat Lions Today To Keep Chance for Ivy Title | 10/20/1962 | See Source »

...antiaircraft rocket, a solid-fuel ground-to-air missile similar to the U.S.'s Nike-Ajax. A nest of six SA-2s is already installed and operational under camouflage at Bahia Honda, 45 miles from Havana. Radar guided, the antiaircraft weapons can reach targets within a 3O°-slant range of from 25 to 27 miles, or as far straight up as 60,000 feet. Another SA-2 site is reported under construction in Matanzas, 60 miles east of Havana, and more rocket batteries are expected eventually to guard all key Cuban military installations and cities. At sea, Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: CASTRO'S COMMUNIST ARSENAL | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...rockets are sometimes dropped by parachute, and to keep them from drifting out of reach, Sandia Corp. is developing a homing parachute controlled by a small radio. When the radio locates the proper impact area, air is automatically spilled from the proper segment of the parachute to make it slant toward a convenient landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Recovery at White Sands | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...would be subordinated the "integrated intellectual formed by these and by among the sciences and scientific and non-scientific of thought. Now, though, the history and these other topics , in view of the disparity the sorts of courses in the program. What was intended by group was that the slant in course be uniformly changed: consensus of the Committee history of scientific disciplines a general introduction to . The present committee urges that the basis for selecting for presentation in a course Science should derive more from the logic and substance itself." What we in fact a number of course offerings...

Author: By Martin J., | Title: General Education's Problems in the Natural Science | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

...triumph was a victory of utter weakness. He stood fast in the path of the bull, directing its charge with a close sweep of his crimson muleta, winding the bull around him, said Ernest Hemingway, "like a belt-his right leg pushed toward the bull, in that bent slant which will be copied but never made truly until another genius comes in the same twisted body." Twisted, small, weak, Belmonte survived with courage that was more than a match for his inability to move with the bull. "My legs were in such a state," he once said, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of a Matador | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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