Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Harrington '59, coaching fresh man basketball for the first time this year, describes his team as "up and down," but is hopeful for a good solid winning season...
...League's best one-two punch in guard Jeff Neuman and forward Stan Pawlak. Both were among the League's top six scorers last year with 16-point averages; Neuman is a fantastic ball-handler and a great passer to boot. John Hellings, who stands 6-8, gives Penn solid rebounding strength...
...enough to give a submarine skipper the shakes: the U.S. Navy announced that it is adding to its arsenal the Mark-46 torpedo, a solid-fuel missile with an underwater speed faster than the newest nuclear subs. Thanks to the wonders of computerdom, the Mark-46 also has a built-in, all-but-infallible killer's instinct...
...liquidity of the season, the Kremlin has lifted the midnight liquor curfew, and on New Year's Eve Muscovites can get oiled until a highly reactionary 5 a.m. Hotels, coffeehouses and restaurants (there are no bars as such) are booked solid and have laid on massive spreads ($13.75 a plate at the Moskva restaurant) and lavish shows (seven different dance bands at the Ukraine). For home celebrators, 8,000 tons of fresh fruit and 1,000,000 bottles of Crimean champagne and wine have been shipped to the capital's markets, and a new state catering service called...
...metals. But the current mush rooming of alloplasty had to await the proliferation of synthetic plastics. Most of the materials now favored are the polymers (basically familiar molecules in unfamiliar, complex arrangements), such as nylon, Dacron and Plexiglas. But even more widely useful are the silicones,* which may be solid or as gooey as engine...