Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Truth was written by Charles Roberts, an able newsman who has been Newsweek's White House correspondent since 1954. Roberts was in Dallas the day of the murder and became one of the two newsmen (the other: U.P.I.'s Merriman Smith) to fly back to Washington on the plane carrying the dead President and his successor. And, unlike Manchester, who was originally commissioned by the Kennedy family, Roberts has written his account "without authorization from anyone, not as a Kennedy man or as a Johnson man, but as a reporter who covered both Presidents...
Sophomore goalie Bill Diercks and junior Ben Smith received Honorable Mention. Diercks ranked second in the league in goals with 203 saves and 29 goals allowed for an 87.5 percentage. The choice of Smith at defense is something of a surprise, since he played forward in all but two games...
Honorable Mention: Goal: Dick Rastani, Brown, and Diercks, Harvard; defense: Smith, Harvard; Forwards: Terry Peterman, Princeton, Dave Ferguson, Cornell, and Bill Swoyer, Dartmouth...
...Dick Smith slashed the old record by 23.2 seconds as he turned in a great time of 18:24.6 for the 1650 yard freestyle...
...expert on sprinting techniques who has written books on the subject and coached three previous world record holders (Harold Davis, Ray Norton and Dennis Johnson), Winter concedes that Smith is still only a mediocre starter-"he used to be terrible"-a weakness that Bud is trying hard to correct. To improve Tommie's drive off the blocks, Winter makes him practice starts in a gymnastic belt equipped with reins that the coach hangs onto for dear life. He has to. "Tommie is getting so he can drag me right down the track," says Winter. He also...