Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy for seagoing radar pickets, the Air Force for intercepting enemy bombers with aircraft and surface-to-air area defense missiles, the Army for point defense of U.S. cities and bases with its Nike system. To work at all, NORAD must function with electronic precision and supersonic speed. But in practice, hardworking "Pat" Partridge finds himself little more than chef for a batch of alphabet soup, including 1) USAF-ADC, the Air Force's Air Defense Command, 2) USARADCOM, the Army's Air Defense Command, 3) NAVFOR, meaning Naval Forces of the North American Air Defense Command...
Meanwhile, Quirk handcuffed the Crimson offense for eight of the nine innings. The lefthanded junior, who has pitched practically all of Dartmouth's games this spring, was handicapped by a sore throwing arm and had to take some speed off his usually formidable fast ball...
...speed he did manage, however, coupled with a very effective change-up, was enough to strike out 12 Crimson batters...
...pilot needs at least three seconds to see and react to an approaching plane; with both planes flying at 300 miles per hour (considerably slower than the speed of the jet airliners which will enter service this winter), three seconds means half a mile. In other words, by the time a pilot can adjust his course to avoid another plane, the other plane is upon him. In addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does...
Dartmouth is not as strong as Princeton, and probably not as strong as Cornell, but it outclassed the Crimson with topnotch speed and size. Its passing was sharp and its plays precise. At one point during the third quarter, the same play caught the varsity napping on three straight occasions...